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BEDFORDSHIRE  COUNTY  RECORDS. 


BEDFORDSHIRE  COUNTY  RECORDS. 


NOTES    AND    EXTRACTS 


FROM    THE 


COUNTY    RECORDS 

Comprised    in    the    Quarter    Sessions     Rolls    from 

1714    TO    1832. 


VOLUME     I. 


Compiled   by   Messrs.    Hardy    ^   Page, 
Record  Agents, 


WITH   AN 


INTRODUCTION 

regarding  the  Work  of  the  County  Records  Committee. 


BEDFORD, 
C.    F.    TIMiEUS, 
PRINTER,  &C. 


\C\01 

I 

INTRODUCTION. 


On  the  4th  Fehruary,  1898,  the  General  Purposes  Committee  of  tlie 
Bedfordshire  County  Coinieil  reported  tliat  a  communication  had  been 
received  from  the  Congress  of  Archaeological  Societies,  urging  upon 
Corporate  Bodies  the  desirability  of  searching  for  and  of  taking  steps  with 
a  view  to  the  preservation  of  old  and  valuable  documents.  Upon  receipt  of 
this  communication  the  General  Purposes  Committee  appointed  a  Special 
Sub-Committee  consisting  of  Alderman  Samuel  Whitbread  and  Councillors 
\\'illiani  Francis  Higgins,  Edward  Thurlow  Leeds  Smith,  Herbert  Owen 
Williams,  and  Henry  Trethewy,  to  consider  and  report  upon  the  subject. 
This  SulvComiiiittee  re[)orted  that  they  found  the  condition  of  the  documents 
in  the  County  Muniment  Room  at  the  Shire  Hall  and  the  manner  of 
storage  very  unsatisfactory,  and  they  recommended  tliat  the  services  of  an 
expert  should  be  engaged  and  steps  taken  for  the  preservation  of  the 
Records. 

On  the  1st  April,  1898,  the  General  Purposes  Committee  recommended 
to  the  Council  the  desirability  of  appointing  a  County  Records  Committee 
to  whom  the  subject  should  be  referred  ;  and  accordingly  the  following 
Members  of  the  Council  were  appointed  as  the  first  County  Records 
Committee  : — 

The  Chairman  of  the  Council,  The  Duke  of  Bedford,^  „^    m  'n 
The  Vice-Chairman,  The  Viscount  Peel,  / 

i       Alderman  Edward  Ernest  Dymond, 
ii  ,,  Samuel  Whitbread, 

iii     Councillor  Edward  Thurlow  Leeds  Smith, 
,,  Henry  Trethewy, 

Charles  Wells, 
,,  Herbert  Owen  Williams, 

iv  ,,  the  Rev.  Paul  Williams  Wyatt. 

Of  these  original  Members  the  Chairman,  the  Vice-Chairman, 
Mr.  Leeds  Smith,  Mr.  Charles  Wells,  Mr.  Samuel  Whitbread,  and  the 
Rev.  Paul  W.  Wyatt  are  still  Members  of  the  Committee. 

The  first  Chairman  of  the  Committee  was  Mr.  Henry  Trethewy,  and 
on  his  retirement  from  the  Council  in  1904  the  Rev.  Paul  Williams  Wyatt 
was  appointed  Chairman. 

The  following  Members  of  the  Council  have  also  served  on  the 
ComTuittee  : — Alderman  Robert  Richmond,  Councillor  Hugh  Cumberland, 
and  Councillor  EiluKJud  Rolx'rt  Green,  and  these  gentlemen  are  at  present 
all  Members  of  the  Committee. 


Note  i.  Vice-Chairman  of  the  Council  1894—1897. 

ii.  Chairman  of  the  General  Purposes  Committee  1898 — 1904. 

iii.  Chairman  of  the  Finance  Conunittee  since  1897. 

iv.  Chairman  of  the  Technical  Instruction  Committee  1901 — 1903. 


1 0395,30 


Tlie  work  ■\vliicli  lay  Ix-forc  the  Committee  at  the  outset  Avas  a  difficult 
one.  Existing  documents  and  papers  were  stored,  in  considerable  confusion, 
in  premises  which  were  neither  fire-proof  nor  secured  from  Ijurylary,  and 
which  were,  in  addition,  ill-vciitilated  and  musty. 

The  first  step  was  to  thoroughly  restore  the  building  and  render  it 
fire-i)roof,  securing  the  windows  by  special  wire-run  glass,  and  to  lit  u[)  the 
interior  with  suitable  shelf  accommodation. 

For  the  reception  of  Award  Maps,  obviously  a  very  valuable  possession 
of  the  County,  a  large  cabinet  with  series  of  drawers  was  arranged  under 
the  advice  of  the  British  iMuseum  experts. 

The  Sessions  Rolls  (the  earliest  of  which  date  only  from  1714)  and 
other  records  were  carefully  examined,  restored,  and  gradually  arranged  by 
Messrs.  Hardy  &  Page,  preparatory  to  being  bound  in  volumes. 

This  work  has  extended  over  a  period  oi  9  years,  and  is  now  completed 
to  the  commencement  of  the  reign  of  Queen  Victoria. 

The  Committee  has  endeavoured,  without  success,  to  discover 
satisfactory  reasons  for  the  loss  of  all  earlier  documents. 

The  condition  of  the  ^old  Muniment  Room  accounts  for  the  destruction 
of  some,  as  the  earlier  of  the  surviving  ones  have  largely  suffered  from 
damp  and  discoloration.     A  further  reason  seems  possible. 

Owing  to  the  fact  that  the  offices  of  Clerk  of  the  Peace  for  the  County 
and  Town  Clerk  of  the  Borough  of  Bedford  were  for  so  long  held  l)y  a 
single  individual  in  the  cases  of  Theed  Pearse,  sen.,  Theed  Pearse,  jun., 
and  Theed  William  Pearse,  certain  public  documents  were  kept  together  in 
the  Parish  chest  in  the  old  Muniment  Room  over  the  South  Porch  of 
S.  Paul's  Church. 

The  custody  of  the  early  records  appears  to  have  been  sul)ject  to 
constant  change. 

The  papers  were  first  removed  from  the  "  Evidence  "House  of  the 
Cori)oration,"  prolmbly  the  Moot  Hall  or  Guildhall  of  the  town,  to  S.  Paul's 
Church  Vestry,  July  5,  1736.  They  were  then  deposited  in  the  restored 
Evidence  House  ;  and  Avere  probably  again  removed  to  the  Church  on  the 
disuse  of  the  Guildhall  in  1753.  The  final  change  to  the  Shire  Hall  offices 
took  place  about  the  year"^  1880. 

Consequent  on  these  ^^  changes  many  papers  may  have  been  lost.  In 
proof  of  this  it  may  be  noted  that  an  early  Borough  Charter  was  lost  either 
during  the  custody  in  the  Church  Muniment  Room,  or  at  one  of  the 
changes ;  and,  being  discovered  many  years  later  in  private  ownership,  was 
restored  to  the  Town. 

Note  i.  There  is  no  old  drawing  showing  the  position  of  this  before  the  present 
buildings  by  Waterhouse.  The  front  of  the  old  Shire  Hall  in  the  print  in 
J.  H.  Matthiasou'.s  History  of  1831  just  obscures  it. 

ii.  This  building  stood  near  the  site  of  the  old  Corn  Exeliaiigi'  on  the  [ireseut 
Market  S(^uaie. 

iii.  The  bringing  over  of  the  Parish  chest  and  pajiers  is  well  reinenibered  by 
Mr.  Thomas  iJuU,  Mr.  \V.  Davis,  Mr.  Horton  (Oiiief  Clerk  at  the  Shire 
Hall),  and  the  piesent  Chairman  of  the  Records  Committee. 

iv.  Confirming  charter  (Plantaganet)  found  in  looking  over  the  parchments  iu  the 
Wyatt  colleclinn  by  Mr.  F.  A.  Page-Turner. 


In  examining  the  arranged  records,  the  Committee  vvouhl  call  attention 
to  the  very  careful  character  of  the  excerpts  made  by  Messrs.  Hardy  &  Page; 
which  note  most  points  of  general  value.  Many  of  the  inilictineiits  and  the 
piniishments  awarded  are  interesting,  as  illustrating  the  customs  and  social 
views  of  the  period.  It  is  to  be  regretted  that  tlie  Sacrament  Certiftcates 
are  in  such  uniformly  bad  condition  that  most  of  the  signatures  are  illegible. 
Of  those  which  are  decipherable,  the  chief  names  of  intcn-est  are  those  of 
Richard  Orlebar^  at  Puddington,  Lewis  Monoux  at  Sandye,  John  Harvey  at 
Ickwelle,  John  Cater"  at  Kempston,  Sir  Pynsent  Chernocke"^  at  Holcutt, 
and  William  Hillersden^'^  'of  the  said  Towne  and  County  at  Elstowe.' 

Two  points  of  general  interest  may  be  noted. 

There  are  many  certificates  for  payments  of  accounts  at  the  Prison  and 
Bridewell.  The  recurrence  of  certain  items,  viz.,  straw,  bread,  and  the 
schedule  of  drugs,  points  to  the  conditions  of  life  of  the  inmates  and  the 
I)revalent  epidemics,  gaol  fever  and  scurvy. 

The  Blacksmith's  accounts  uncomfortably  remind  us  of  the  very  late 
date  at  which  fetters  and  leg-irons  were  in  common  use. 

But,  on  closer  examinaticm,  a  Ijrighter  light  is  thrown  upon  the  period 
T)y  the  evidence  of  constant  care  on  the  part  of  the  Bedfordshire  Justices  for 
the  state  of  the  Gaol  and  Bridewell  and  the  health  of  the  prisoners. 
Growing  attention  to  the  subject  is  sufficiently  marked  to  raise  the  question 
as  to  why  the  rate  of  progress  in  the  prison  conditions  is  so  accelerated. 
The  change  undoubtedly  synchronized  with  the  work  and  influence  of 
John  Howard  of  Cardington. 

In  1773  the  Philanthropist  served  as  High  Sheriff  of  Bedfordshire, 
and  in  that  year  visited  the  County  Gaol,  the  Town  Gaol,  and  the  Bridewell. 
These  visits  were  followed  by  that  remarkable  series  of  journeys  throughout 
England  and  the  Continent,  which  revolutionized  the  treatment  of  the 
imprisoned ;  and  called  forth  from  Edmund  Burke  the  magnificent  tribute 
'*  His  plan  is  original  and  it  is  as  full  of  genius  as  it  is  of  humanity.  It 
was  a  voyage  of  discovery — a  circumnavigation  of  charity." 

As  early  as  1774  Howard  was  examined  on  the  subject  in  the  House 
of  Commons.  From  1773  to  the  year  of  his  death  1790,  he  constantly  used 
the  house  in  Mill  Street,  Bedford,  called  by  his  name,  from  the  Saturday  to 
Monday,  while  in  residence  at  Cardington.  This  gave  him  frequent 
opportunities  of  further  inspection  of  the  local  prisons.'^ 

In  1783  an  entry  bears  distinct  evidence  of  his  influence,  and  in  1787 
a  move  is  made  for  the  enlargement  of  the  "Mniildings  and  for  placing  the 
cells  above  ground. 

Note  I.      High  Sheriff  1721. 

ii.     High  Sheriff  1768. 

iii.     3rd  Baronet,   M. P.   for  Beds.,  son  of  Sir  Villiers,  also   M.P.   for  Beds. 

iv.  His  grandfather  hoiight  tlie  lauds  of  Elstow  Priory  of  tlie  Kadelilfes,  and 
built  lillstow  Plaee,  the  '  l^alaee  Beautiful '  of  the  Pilgrims  Progress. 

v.  These  facts,  with  the  dates,  were  comnuuuoated  hy  Sir  Frederick  Howard,  a 
former  Member  of  the  Couneil,  and  County  Alderman  from  1889  to  1895. 

vi.  This  refers  to  the  l^ri.son  which  stood  at  the  corner  of  Silver  Street  and  High 
Street,  and  inuludcd  the  present  Ohcquur's  Inn,  and  further  imijected  into 
the  High  Street  roadway  and  across  the  present  Silver  Street  roadway,  the 
old  Silver  Street  being  opjjosite  to  Mill  Street.  There  is  a  record  of  the 
Magistrates  approving  an  arched  culvert  from  here  to  Well  Street. 


Extracts  from  the  certificates  of  the  Gaoler  in  1790  point  to  distinctly 
improved  conditions,  both  material  and  moral,  and  the  care  for  sick 
prisoners  is  specially  noliceahle.  A  year  or  two  further  on  extensive 
alterations  and  improvements  were  nndertaken  to  the  gaol,  felon's  j'ard,  and 
yard  of  the  house  of  correction,  and  long  minutes  occur  showing  the 
importance  the  justices  attach  to  humane  treatment  of  the  inmates,  male 
and  female. 

The  other  remarkable  set  of  records  referred  to  is  the  collection  of 
Justices'  warrants  for  horses,  wagons,  and  Itibour  in  connection  with  the 
removal  of  troo])s.     These  warrants  extend  from  1722  to  1741. 

Mr.  Whitbread  first  called  attention  to  the  unusual  number  and  rapid 
shifts  of  the  regiments  in  Bedfordshire ;  and  the  attempt  was  made  to  trace 
a  connection  between  these  changes  of  station  and  the  secret  movements  of 
the  Jacobite  party. 

Careful  examination  has  not  warranted  such  supposition  ;  the  fact 
seeming  rather  to  be  that  we  have,  accidenth'  preserved,  in  this  County,  a 
very  complete  record  of  the  regular  marches  of  the  troops  in  their  changes 
of  station,  at  a  central  point  of  the  country,  where  the  great  high-roads 
either  intersected  or  closely  approached  each  other. 

Among  the  excerpts  of  special  character  may  be  mentioned  the 
following  :— The  Gaol  Medicine's  accounts  pp.  1,  52  ;  Sniall-])ox  p.  13  ; 
list  of  Public-houses  p.  30 ;  Indictments  for  practising  trades  without 
previous  apprenticeship  p.  32  et  seq  ;  mention  of  the  Moravian  body  in 
Bedford  p.  34  ;  Ouse  navigation  p.  45  ;  Outlawry  p.  52  ;  Irons  on  Prisoners 
in  Court  p.  64  ;  Bedfordshire  Militia  p.  67  et  seq  ;  earliest  convictions  for 
false  weight  p.  93  ;  erection  of  Bromhara  Mill  p.  131  ;  High  Constable  for 
the  hundred  of  Flitt  p.  162  ;  Forged  Bank  of  England  Notes  p.  162. 

The  County  Records  Committee  having  decided  to  issue  to  the 
Members  of  the  County  Council  in  a  small  volume  the  Notes  on  the 
Quarter  Sessions  Records  so  far  as  they  have  now  been  printed,  and  they 
having  requested  their  Chairman  to  prepare  an  Introduction,  the  present 
volume  is  placed  in  the  hands  of  the  Members  of  the  Council  in  the  hope 
that  it  may  prove  of  interest  and  value. 


NOTES 


FKOM   THE 


BEDFORDSHIRE  COUNTY  RECOEDS. 


NOTES 


FROM    THE 


BEDFORDSHIRE  COUNTY  RECORDS. 


1714. 

11  25th  August.  Recognizance  for  the  appearance  of  William  Peel,  Adam 
Buckett,  and  Henry  Faunch,  to  answer  for  "  setting  or  pitching  a  hay 
nett"and  snaring  hares,  at  the  hamlet  of  Heath  and  Reach,  in  the 
manor  of  Leighton  Buzzard. 

25,  &c.    Numerous   Sacrament  Certificates  and  Certificates  of  Conviction 

of  various  persons  for  swearing  profane  oaths. 

74  Indictment  of  John  Trustram  of  Luton,  for  assaulting  John  Sherlock  and 
imprisoning  him  for  the  space  of  one  hour. 


1716. 

26  An  Account  of  Medicines  for  tlie  gaol.  The  items  are  principally 
"scorbutic  oyutnient,  sudorihc  bolus,  anodine  draught,  cathartick  pills 
No.  5,  cordial  bolus,  cordiall  jular,  anodine  electuary." 


1721. 

19a    Declaration  of  James  I.  and  Articles  of  Religion  im[)erfect ;  Articles 
34,  35,  and  36  are  crossed  out. 


1722. 

1  and  2  lltli  April.  Warrant  to  the  constables  of  Wymington  and  Puddington 
to  provide  a  waggon  with  seven  horses  and  two  aljle  bodied  men  to 
convey  the  baggage  of  the  regiment  of  foot,  commanded  by  Brigadier 
Grove,  from  Bedford  to  Higham  Ferrers. 

5    Like    warrant    for   the  conveyance  of  the   baggage   of  a    troop   of    Lord 
Londonderry's  Regiment  from  Bedford  to  Wellingborough. 

16  4th  October.  Account  of  "Gaol  necessaries."  July  24th.  (?)  Gave 
drink  to  several  persons  that  put  the  Hre  out,  the  gaol  b(;ing  (Jii  tire 
and  the  dungeon  doors  burnt,  7s.  6d. 


1724. 

5    2nil  June.     Warrant  for  the  conveyance  of  the  baggage  of  a  troop  of  horse 
of  Lord  Londonderry's  Regiment  from  Dunstable  to  Stony  Stratford. 


9th  December.  Information  by  Alexander  Perring  of  Clapham,  in  the  62 
County  of  Bedford,  that  on  or  about  the  4th  December  last,  he  being 
one  of  the  field  drivers  of  the  said  parish,  and  sworn  into  that  office  at 
a  court  baron  held  by  order  of  the  lord  of  the  manor  of  the  said  parish, 
saw  one  William  Geery,  Samuel  Jackson,  and  James  Pain  driving  a 
cart  laden  with  stubble  straw  over  the  cow  commons  belonging  to  the 
said  parisji,  contrary  to  the  by-laws  of  the  said  manor,  which  by-laws 
the  informant  was  sworn  to  do  his  best  to  see  put  in  execution,  and 
in  order  thereto,  he  rode  up  to  the  said  cart  and  ordered  the  said 
Samuel  Jackson  to  drive  the  horses  and  cart  into  the  road  and  not 
over  the  cow  commons,  which  he  refused  to  do,  and  then  William 
Geery  came  up  and  said  that  the  said  Jackson  should  drive  the  cart 
over  the  common,  which  the  informant  tried  to  prevent,  whereupon  he 
was  beaten  and  wounded  by  the  said  Jackson  and  Geery. 

15th  July.     Petition  of  John  Young  and  Blaze  Sounds,  closely  confined   105 
in  the  county  gaol  for  debt,  to  the  justices  of  the  peace,  praying  for  an 
allowance  of  bread  as  the  other  debtors  receive,  otherwise  they  will 
perish.     Note  "Allowed  bread  as  desired." 

Like  Petition  of  Jane  Smith,  widow.  106 


1725- 

12th  April.     Warrant  for  the  conveyance  of  the  baggage   of  a  troop  of   5 
Lord  Cobham's  Kegiment  of  Horse  from  Bedford  to  Royston. 

12tli  April.     Like  warrants.  6  and  7 

12th  April.     Like  warrant  for  the  conveyance  of  the  baggage  of  the  same    8 
regiment  from  Woburn  to  Luton. 

13th  April.     Like  warrant  for  the  conveyance  of  the  baggage  of  the  same    9 
regiment  from  Bedford  to  Royston. 

14th  April.     Like  warrant  for  the  conveyance  of  the  baggage  of  tlie  same    10 
regiment  from  Shefford  to  Buntingford 

Like  warrant.  n 

Like  warrant  for  the  conveyance  of  the  baggage  of  the  same  regiment    12 
from  Bedford  to  Royston. 

Like   warrant  for  the  conveyance  of  the  baggage  of  the  same  regiment    13 
from  Luton  to  Hatfield. 

15th   July.       Necessary    expenses   for   the   gaol.       For   mutton   and    100 
comfortable  things  for  Church,  Edmonds,  and  divers  others,  since  last 
session,  15s. 

IGth  January.     Presentment  by  the  surveyors  of  tlic  parish  of  Chalgrave,    122 
that  the  highways  are  out  of  repair. 


124   18th  January.     Like  presentment  by  the  parish  of  Stan  bridge, 

131    6th  October.     The   surveyors  of  the  highways  of  the  parish  of  Wilden 
present  that  the  highways  are  in  good  repair. 


1726. 

4   27th  April.     Warrant  for  the  conveyance  of  the  baggage  of  three  troops 
of  Horse  Guards  from  Biggleswade  to  Huntingdon. 

5 — 9  27th  April.  Warrant  for  the  conveyance  of  the  baggage  of  a  troop  of  the 
Duke  of  Bolton's  Regiment  of  Horse  Guards  from  Dunstable  to 
^Newport  Pagnell. 

11  17th    May.      Warrant   for   the   conveyance    of  the    baggage    of    Lord 

Londonderry's  Kegiment  from  Woburn  to  Buntingford. 

12  20th  June.     Warrant  to  the  constables  of  Dunstable  for  the  conveyance 

of  the  King's  baggage  to  Luton. 

14  and  15  16th  September.  Warrants  for  the  conveyance  of  tlie  baggage  of  the 
Princess  of  Wales'  Kegiment  of  Horse,  commanded  by  the  Duke  of 
Argyll,  from  Woburn  to  Towcester. 

19 — 23  17th  December.  Warrants  for  the  conveyance  of  the  baggage  of  the 
regiment  of  Dragoons,  commanded  by  Brigadier  Gore,  from  Dunstable 
to  St.  Albans. 


1727. 

1^  8 — 11    3rd  January.     Warrants  for  the  conveyance  of  the  baggage  of  Colonel 
13 16  Clayton's  Eegiment  from  Dunstable  to  Hatfield. 

7   30th  January.     Warrant  for  the  conveyance  of  the  baggage  of  a  Company 
of  Foot  from  Dunstable  to  Hatfield. 

17  6th  February.  Warrant  for  the  conveyance  of  the  baggage  of  the  King's 
Own  Regiment  from  Bedford  to  Dunstable. 

19 24   18th  February.     Warrants   for  the  conveyance  of  the  baggage  of  the 

Princess  of  Wales'  Kegiment  from  Dunstable  to  St.  Albans. 

25  and  26   8th  March.     Warrants  for  the  conveyance  of  the  baggage  of  the  King's 
Own  Regiment  from  Leighton  Buzzard  to  Hempstead. 

33_3G    15th  May.     Warrants  for  the  conveyance  of  tlie  baggage  of  tlie  Duke  of 
lloltun's  Kegiment  from  Bedford  to  Northampton. 

42  19th  August.  Warrant  to  the  cojistables  of  Leighton  Buzzard  for  the 
conveyance  of  the  l)aggagc  of  Major  Lisle's  troop  in  his  uwn  regiment 
of  horse  from  Leighton  Buzzard  to  Ware. 


21st   August.     Warrant  for  the  conveyance  of  the  baggage  of   Captain   43 
Lancaster's  troop  of  horse  from  Dunstable  to  Ware. 

14th  September.     Warrant  for  the  conveyance  of  the  baggage  of  that  part   46 
of  the  King's  Own  Regiment  commanded,  by  Viscount  Cobham,  from 
Dunstable  to  St.  Albans. 

15th  September.     Warrant  for  the  conveyance  of  the  baggage  of  a  troop   48 
uf  Viscount  Cobham's  Regiment  of  Horse  from  Leighton  to  St.  Albans. 

3Uth  September.     Warrants    for  the  conveyance  of  the  baggage  of  the  52 — 56, 

Queen's   Own  Regiment  of  Horse,  connnanded  by  the  Duke  of  Argyll,  and  58 
from  Dunstable  to  Newport  Pagnell,  in  their  route  to  Nottingham  and 
Stamford. 

5th  October.     Warrant  for  the  conveyance  of  the  baggage  of  the  King's   59 
Regiment  of  Horse  from  Dunstable  to  Hertford. 

5th  October.     Warrant  for  the  conveyance  of  the  baggage  of  three  troops   60 
of  the  Queen's  Royal  Regiment  from  Dunstable  to  Newport  Pagnell. 

16th  October.     Warrant  for  the  conveyance  of  the  baggage  of  a  troop  of  61 
the  same  regiment  from  Biggleswade  to  Dunstable. 

17th  October.     Warrants   for  the  conveyance  of  the  baggage  of  Brigadier   62  and  63 
Ker's  Dragoons  from  Woburn  to  Dunstable. 

17th  October.     Warrants  for  the  conveyance  of  the  baggage  of  the  Queen's   64  and  65 
Own  Regiment  from  Dunstable  to  St.  Albans,   on  their  way  to  be 
reviewed  by  the  King  on  Hounslow  Heath. 

19th  October.     Warrant  for  the  conveyance  of  the  baggage  of  the  Queen's   66 
Own  Regiment  of  Dragoons  from  Biggleswade  to  Stevenage. 

21st  October.     Warrant  for  carrying  the  baggage  of  the  Royal  Regiment   69 
of  North  British  Dragoons  from  Dunstable  to  Watford,  on  their  way  for 
review  on  Hounslow  Heath. 

21st  October..     Warrant  for  the  conveyance  of  the  baggage  of  some  troops   70 
of  Dragoons  from  Dunstable  to  Watford. 

22nd  October.     Warrant  for  the  conveyance  of  the  baggage  of  part  of  the    71 74 

Queen's  Own  Regiment  of  Dragoons,  under  the  command  of  Brigadier 
Ker,  from  Dunstable  to  St.  Albans. 

23rd  October.      Warrants  for  the  conveyance  of  the  baggage  of  part  of  the    75 77 

regiment  of  North  Ijiitish  Dragoons,  under  the  command  of  tlie  Hon. 
.lames  Cam])bell,  from  Dunstable  to  Watford,  on  their  way  to  be 
reviewed  on  Hounslow  Heath. 


78  and  79  23rcl  October.  Warrants  for  carrying  the  baggage  of  part  of  the  King's 
Own  Kegiment,  under  the  command  of  Major  General  Gore,  from 
Dunstable  to  Newport  Pagnell. 

81,  82,  86,    1st  November.     Like  warrants  for  the  conveyance  of  the  baggage  of  part 

90  of  the  said  regiment  from  Dunstable  to  Woburn. 

83 85,  95    2nd  November.     Warrants  for  the  conveyance  of  a  troop  of  the  said 

and  96  regiment  from  Woburn  to  Newport  Pagnell. 

87 — 89  3rd  November.  Warrants  for  the  conveyance  of  the  baggage  of  the 
regiment  of  North  British  Dragoons  from  Dunstable  to  Newport 
Pagnell. 

91  4th  November.     Warrant  for  the  conveyance  of  part  of  the  King's  Own 

Regiment  to  Northampton. 

92  4th  November.     Warrant  for  the  conveyance  of  the  baggage  of  part  of  the 

regiment    of    North    British    Dragoons    from    Dunstable    to    Newport 
Pagnell. 

93  and  94  6th  November.  Warrants  for  the  conveyance  of  the  King's  baggage  from 
Dunstable  to  Woburn. 

100   7th  November.     Warrant  for  the  conveyance  of  the  baggage  and  sick  men 
of  Brigadier  Ivor's  regiment  from  Woburn  to  Aylesbury. 

228   4th  October.     Presentment  that  the  highway  leading  from  the  parish  of 
Woburn  towards  Eversholt  is  out  of  repair. 


1728. 

7  6th  iNTarch.  Warrant  for  the  conveyance  of  the  baggage  of  a  troop  of  the 
King's  Own  Kegiment  of  horse,  commanded  by  Viscount  Cobham, 
from  Leighton  Buzzard  to  St.  Albans. 

9  13th  April.  Warrant  for  the  conveyance  of  the  l)aggage  of  three 
companies  of  foot  soldiers  of  the  King's  Iloyal  Regiment  of  Welsh 
Fuzileers  from  Biggleswade  to  Dunstable. 

10  15th  April.     Warrant    for    the    conveyance    of   the    baggage    of    three 

companies  of  the  said  regiment  from  Biggleswade  to  Market  Street. 

11  19th  April.     Warrant    for    tlic    conveyatice    of    the    baggage    of  three 

companies    of    tlie    same    regiment   front    Biggleswade    to     Baldock, 
Dunstaljle,  and  Redl)Ourn. 

12  17th  April.     Warrant    for    the    conveyance     of    the    baggage    of    tln-ee 

companies  of  the  same  regiment  from  Baldock  and  llitchiu. 


29th  April.     Warrant  for  the  conveyance  of   the  baggage  of   the  King's    14 
Regiment  of   Hor.^e,    under  the  command   of  Viscount   Cobham,  from 
Leighton  Buzzard  to  Towcester,  on  their  march  from  Wellingborough, 
Bedford,  Northampton,  Newport  Pagnell,  Towcester,  and  Daventry. 

29th  April.     Warrant  for  the  conveyance  of  the  baggage  of  a  company  of    15 
soldiers  from  LutDii  to  Hemel  Hempstead. 

30th  April.     Warrant  for  the  conveyance  of  the  baggage  of  two  troops  of    16 
the  Duke  of  Boltrjn's  Royal  Regiment  of  Horse  Guards  from  Bedford  to 
Hitchin. 

30th   April.     Warrant   for  the    conveyance   of    the   baggage  of  the  said    17 
regiment  from  l)uiistal)le  to  St.  Albans,  in  their  march  to  St.  Albans, 
Hertford,  Ware,  Barnet,  Watford,  and  Hempstead. 

30th    Apiil       Warrant   for  the  conveyance  of   the  baggage  of   the   same    18 
regiment  from  Bedford  to  Hitchin. 

30th    April.     Warrant   for  the   conveyance   of   the   baggage  of  the  same    19 
regiment  from  L)unstable  to  St.  Albans. 

30th    April.      Warrants  for  the  conveyance  of  the  baggage  of  Viscount    20 — 22 
Cobliiiiu's  regiment  from  Leighton  Buzzard  to  Towcester, 

1st  May.     Warrant  foi'  the  conveyance  of  the  baggage  of   25  men  of  the    21 
lioyal  Regiment  of  Horse  Guards  from  Luton  to  Ware., 

1st   May.     Warrant    for    the   conveyance   of    the    baggage   of    the    .same    23 
regiment  from  Bedfoul  to  Wellinghoiough. 

2nd  May.      Warrant  for  the  conveyance  of  the  baggage  of  the   Duke  of    24 
Bolton's  Regiment  of  Horse  Guards,  which  was  quartered  at  Daventry, 
from  Leighton    Buzzard    to    Hempstead,  in   their   march  to  St.  Albans, 
Hertford,  Wiux',  Barnet,  and  Heni[istead. 

2nd    May.     Warrant  for    the    conveyance    of  the    baggage    of  the  same    25 
regiment  from  Dunstable  to  Watford. 

2nd    May.      Warrant    for   the    conveyance    of    the    baggage  of    the    same    26 
regiment  to  St.  Albans. 

2nd    May.      Warrant    for   the   conveyance   of    the   baggage    of    the   same    27 
regiment  frtjni   hunstalile  to  Barnet. 

2nd    May.     Warrant    for   the    conveyance   of   ,the    liaggage    of  Vi.scoiint    28 
Cobham's  K(  giineiit  from  Dunstable  to  Newport  Pagnell. 

2nd    May.      Warrant   for  the  conveyance  of   the  baggage  of   the    Duke  of    29 
lioltonVs  RcL^imcint  from  Dunstable  to  St.  Albans. 


31  and  32  4th  May.  Warrants  for  the  conveyance  of  the  baggage  of  the  Royal 
Regiment  of  Fuzileers,  under  the  Command  of  Lieutenant-General 
Sabine,  from  Dunstable  to  Hempstead,  in  their  march  to  Kingston,  the 
Wick,  Brentford,  Acton  and  Ealing,  Islevvorth,  Twickenham,  and 
Hounslow. 

35  and  35  21st  May.  Warrants  for  the  conveyance  of  the  baggage  of  Col.  the  Hon. 
Edward  Montague's  Regiment  of  Foot  from  Dunstable  to  Woburn,  in 
their  march  to  Berwick. 

37  and  40    23rd  May.     Warrant   for  the  conveyance  of  the   baggage  of  the  same 
41  regiment  from  Woburn  to  Newport  Pagnell. 

39  23rd  May.  Warrant  for  the  conveyance  of  the  same  from  Dunstable  to 
Woburn. 

44 — 46  July.  Warrants  for  the  conveyance  of  the  baggage  of  Col.  the  Hon. 
Henry  Harrison's  Regiment  of  Foot,  in  their  march  to  Chester, 
Xantwich,  Wrexham,  and  Middlewich. 

53 — 57  October.  Warrants  for  the  conveyance  of  the  baggage  of  the  Queen's 
Own  Regiment  of  Horse  from  Dunstable  to  Newport  Pagnell. 

58  6th  October.  Warrant  for  the  conveyance  of  the  baggage  of  one  tiuop  of 
horse  of  Viscount  Cobham's  Regiment,  now  quartering  at  Bedford,  to 
Ampthill. 

60,  62 — 67  11th  October.  Warrants  for  the  conveyance  of  the  baggage  of  a  troop  of 
the  King's  Own  Eegiment  of  Dragoons,  under  the  command  of  Lord 
Carpenter,  from  Woburn  to  Berkhamstead.  Other  warrants  to  carry 
the  baggage  of  the  same  regiment  to  Redbourn,  Luton,  and  Dunstable, 
in  their  march  from  York  to  Dunstable,  Luton,  Redbourn,  Hertford, 
Hoddesden,  and  Berkhamstead. 

90  Recognizance  for  the  appearance  of  Thomas  Crawley  of  Market  Street, 
and  John  Jenkins  of  Eaton  Bray,  for  their  appearance  to  answer  for 
refusing  to  billet  or  quarter  two  Dragoons  and  two  horses. 

114  Information  that  William  Rawlins  and  William  Whitbread  the  younger 

shot  ami  killed   pigeons  in  the  yard   of    Edmund    Butsworth,  in    the 
parish  of  Eversholt. 

115  10th  January.     Certificate  that  the  dwelling  house  of  Sarah  Norman,  in 

in  the  town  of  Shitlington  is  a   place  for  the  meeting  of  Protestant 
Dissenters. 

158    Certificate  for  repairs  to  Bromham  Bridge. 

173  Petition  of  John  Byby,  parson  of  the  church  of  Caddington,  that  his 
parish  is  partly  in  the  County  of  Bedford  and  partly  in  that  of  Herts., 
and  there  is  consequently  a  difficulty  in  the  collection  of  the  poor  rate. 


1729. 

7th  May.     Warrant  for  the  conveyaiK^e  of  the  ba<:fgage  of  a  troop  of  the      9 
King's  Own  Reyiment,  commanded  l)y  Lord  Cobham,  from  Luton  to 
Hitchin. 

5th  May.     Warrant  for  the  conveyance  of  the  baggage  of  a  troop  of  the    14 
King's  (Jwu  Regiment  from  Bedford  to  Hitchin. 

May.     Warrants  for  the  conveyance  of  the  baggage  of  the  same  regiment   15,  17,  18, 
from  Dunstable  to  St.  Albans.  "  22—24 

6th  May.      Warrants    for  the  conveyance  of  the  same  from  Leighton    19  and  20 
Buzzard  to  Hempstead. 

May.     Warrants  for  the  conveyance  of  the  baggage   of  a  troop  of  the   21,  25,  27 
Royal  Regiment  of  Horse  Guards,  commanded  by  tlio  Duke  of  Bolton, 
from  Dunstable  to  Newport  Pagnell. 

8th  May.     Warrants  for  the  conveyance  of  the  baggage  of  a  troop  of  the   26  and  30 
said  regiment  from  Wuburn  to  Northampton. 

8th  May.     Warrant  for  the  conveyance  of  the  baggage  of  tne  King's  Own   28 
Regiment  of  Horse  from  Bedford  to  Wellingborough. 

8th  May.     Carriage  warrant  for  the  conveyance  of  a  troop  of  the  Royal   29  and  31 
Regiment  of  Horse  Guards,  commanded  by  the  Duke  of  Bolton,   from 
Dunstable  to  Stony  Stratford. 

8th  May.     Warrant  for  the  conveyance  of  the  baggage  of  a  troop  of   37 
soldiers  from  Luton  to  Bedford. 

11th  September.     Warrant  for  the  coveyance  of  the  baggage  of  a  troop  of   38 
tlie  Duke  of  Bolton's  Regiment  from  Bedford  to  Northampton. 


1730. 

19th  April.     Warrant  for  the  conveyance  of  the  baggage  of  tlie  Queen's   6 
Own  Royal  Regiment  of  Horse  from  Dunstable  to  Newport  Pagnel.* 

11th  INIay.     Warrant  for  the  conveyance  of  the  baggage  of  one  troop  of   7  and  8 
Horse  belonging  to  the  King's  Own  Regiment  from  Bedford  to  Higham 
Ferrers. 

12th  May.     Warrant  for  the  conveyance  of  the  baggage  of  a  troop  of  the   9  and  14 
Queen's  Own  Regiment  of  Horse  from  Dunstable  to  St.  Albans. 

*NOTE. — All  tlie  Warrants  for  Conveyance  of  Troops  are  noted,  as  they  are  often 
important  as  showing  the  position  of  the  Regiment  at  particular  times,  information 
which  is  not  always  to  be  obtained  elsewhere. 


10 

15  and  17  9th  June.  Warrant  for  the  conveyance  of  the  haj^cjage  of  a  troop  of  the 
King's  Own  liegiment  of  Horse,  commanded  l)y  Viscount  Cobham, 
from  Dunstable  to  St.  Albans. 

16  9th  June.  Warrant  for  the  conveyance  of  the  baggage  of  two  troops  of 
the  same  regiment  from  Leighton  Buzzard  to  Hempstead. 

18 — 20    18th  June.     Warrant   for  the  conveyance  of  the  baggage  of  the  same 
regiment  from  Dunstable  to  Chesham. 

21 — 26    26th  June.     Warrant  for  the  conveyance  of  the  baggage  of  part  of  the 
same  regiment  from  Dunstable  to  Newport  Pagnel. 

27  29th  June.  Warrant  for  the  conveyance  of  the  baggage  of  part  of  the 
same  regiment  from  Chalgrave  to  Newport  Pagnel. 

36  7th  November.  Examination  of  Anne  Julinson,  a  vagrant,  taken  up  in 
the  parish  of  Wootton. 

She  says  that  she  does  not  very  well  know  how  old  she  is,  but 
appears  to  be  between  13  and  14  years  of  age.  That  her  father  and 
mother  were  named  Kichard  and  Sarah  Johnson,  and  that  her  father 
was  a  miller  and  lived  in  the  parish  of  Wirksworth,  in  the  county  of 
Derby,  in  which  parish  deponent  was  born  as  she  has  often  been  told 
by  her  father  and  mother.  That  her  father,  owing  more  money  in 
and  about  Wirksworth  than  he  was  able  to  pay,  and  afraid  of  being 
thrown  into  prison,  some  years  ago  (but  how  many  deponent  cannot 
tell),  together  with  his  wife  and  the  deponent,  left  the  parish  of 
Wirksworth  and  went  from  thence  to  the  City  of  London,  where,  after 
they  had  been  some  time  deponent's  mother  died,  and  the  same  summer 
the  father  also  died.  Ever  since  his  death  she  has  lived  by  begging, 
and  sometimes  has  earned  some  small  wages  by  keeping  of  sheep  and 
cows  in  the  fields  belonging  to  several  parishes  and  counties  through 
which  she  has  wandered. 

61  Recognizance  by  Hannah  White  to  give  evidence  against  Robert  Mane, 
of  Dunstable,  barber  or  peruke-maker,  for  striking  her  on  the  arms  and 
back  with  a  broom. 

67  15th  April.      Depositions  of  Elizabeth,  wife  of  John  Collett.   that  Daniel 

Britton  of  Stotfold,  carpenter,  offered  to  kiss  her  in  the  house  of  Eden 
Smith,  and  upon  her  refusal  assaulted  her. 

68  16th  April.     Examination    of     'Sliwy,    wife     of     William     Barnett,     of 

Biddenham,  labourer. 

She  deposes  that  six  months  since  she  became  acquainted  with 
George  White,  of  Biddeidiani,  tailor,  and  frecjueiitiy  (hiring  that  time 
has  travelled  about  tlie  country  with  him  in  a  lewd,  i;lle,  and  disorderly 
manner. 


11 

Examination  of  John  Partridge,  of  Biddenham,  gentleman. 

He  deposes  that  the  said  Mary  Barnet  has  several  times  absented 
herself  from  her  husband  and  wandered  abroad  from  the  said  parish 
with  the  said  George  White,  by  reason  whereof  the  said  William 
Barnett  has  been  rendered  incapable  of  supporting  his  family,  and  has 
been  forced  to  ask  and  actually  to  receive  relief  from  the  parish  of 
Biddenham. 

16th  April.     Examination  of  William  Barnet,  of  [Biddenhjam,  labourer.    69 

He  deposes  that  George  White  has  several  times  seduced  the  said 
AVilliam's  wife,  from  Biddenham,  against  the  deponent's  will,  and  has 
wandered  about  with  her  in  several  parishes.  The  deponent  pursued 
the  said  White,  and  overtaking  him  demanded  his  wife,  upon  which  he 
replied  "You  may  take  her  home  now  but  I  will  have  her  again  dead 
or  alive,"  and  threatened  the  life  of  the  deponent  and  to  burn  his  house 
if  he  discovered  to  the  wife  of  the  said  White  his  going  away  with 
deponent's  wife. 

Examination  of  Kichard  Taylor,  mariner,  aged  about  43  years.  73 

Deposes  that  he  has  used  the  sea  ever  since  he  was  eight  years  old. 
That  he  knows  not  where  he  was  born  or  whereof  he  is  an  inhabitant, 
but  that  he  shijiped  himself  on  board  the  Advice,  Capt.  William  Owen, 
commander,  and  sailed  in  her  from  the  Thames  to  Gibraltar.  That 
after  he  had  served  six  years  as  a  foremastman  in  the  said  ship,  he  was 
paid  off  at  Queenborough.  That  in  August,  1728,  he  sliipped  on  board 
the  Beffi/  galley,  Capt.  Pitts,  of  Weymouth,  commander,  and  sailed  in 
her  from  the  Thames  to  Papas,  on  the  coast  of  Guinea,  wjiere  they 
stayed  three  weeks  and  then  sailed  to  Jamaica  with  negroes.  That  in 
their  return  from  Jamaica  to  England  they  were  taken  by  pirates  at 
the  Azores,  and  being  put  into  their  boats  by  the  pirates  were  taken  up 
at  sea  by  the  Ann  galley,  Capt.  Jt)hnson,  commander,  who  brought  them 
to  Whitehaven  in  August  last,  where  he  met  with  his  wife  Alice  who 
now  travels  about  with  him,  and  that  he  has  begged,  and  she  has  got 
her  livelihood  by  fiddling  for  four  months  past. 

Certificate    by     Sir   William    Smitli,    knight,    John    Cater,    and    Thomas    86 
Armstrong,  Escjuires,  Justices  of  the  Peace  for  the  County  of  Bedford, 
that    they    have    contracted    with    Jonathan     Forward,     of    London, 
merchant,  for  the  transportation  of  Mary   Hunt,    Mary  Lawson,  and 
Thomas  Kadwell. 


April,  October,     Warrants  for  tlie  conveyance  of  the  baggage  of  the  (^)ueen's   3  —  6  and 
Own  Royal  Regiment  of  Horse  from  Dunstable  to  Newport  Pagnel,         28 37 


31st  May. 


May.     Warrant  for  the  conveyance   of  the   baggage   of  a  troo;)   of   8 
Horse    belonging    to    Viscount  Cobham's  Regiment  from  Bedford    to 
Northampton. 


12 

9  and   June.     Warrants  for  the  conveyance  of  the  baggage  of  part  of  the  Queen's 

21 24  Own  Royal  Regiment  of  Horse,  commanded  by  the  Duke  of  Argyll, 

from  Dunstable  to  Barnet. 

10—12   4th  July.     Warrants  for  the  conveyance  of  the  baggage  of  various  troops 
of  the  King's  Horse  from  Dunstable  to  Barnet. 

13 I6j   July.     Warrant    for    the  conveyance    of    various    troops   of    Viscount 

18 20  Cobham's  Regiment  of  Horse  from  Dunstable  to  St.  Albans. 

17   5th  July.     Warrant  for  the  conveyance  of  the  baggage  of  a  troop  of  the 
same  regiment  from  Bedford  to  Dunstable. 

38,  40—43    1st  November.     Warrants  for  the  conveyance  of  the  baggage  of  various 
troops  of  the  same  regiment  from  Dunstable  to  Stony  Stratford. 

39  and   November.     Warrants  for  the  conveyance  of  the  baggage  of  various  troops 
50 53  of  the  same  regiment  from  Dunstable  to  Newport  Pagnel. 

44 49   November.     Warrants  for  the  conveyance  of  the  baggage  of  various  troops 

of  Horse  from  Dunstable  to  Newport  Pagnel. 

54  10th  December.     Warrant   to  the  gaoler  of  the   County  Gaol  to  carry 

Thomas  Radwell — convicted  of  felony  within  benefit  of  clergy  and 
ordered  to  be  transported  to  the  Colonies  and  Plantations  in  America 
for  seven  years — to  Jonathan  Forward,  of  London,  merchant,  who  has 
contracted  for  his  transportation. 

55  10th  December.     Like  warrant  to  carry  Mary  Hunt  and  Mary  Lawson  to 

the  said  Jonathan  Forward. 

80    14th  December.     Bond  by  Jonathan  Forward,  of  London,   merchant,    in 

120    U.    to Mallett.      Reciting    that    at   the  last    Assizes    Sir 

AVilliam  Smith,  John  Cater,  Esquire,  and  Thomas  Armstrong,  Justices 
of  the  Peace,  were  appointed  by  the  Court  to  contract  with  any  person 
or  persons  for  the  effectual  transportation  of  Thomas  Radwell,  Mary 
Lawson,  and  Mary  Hunt  to  some  of  the  King's  Colonies  and  Plantations 
in  America,  the  said  Thomas  Radwell  for  seven  years,  and  the  said 
Mary  Lawson  and  Mary  Hunt  for  14  years.  The  said  convicts  are, 
accordin"  to  a  contract  made  between  the  said  Justices  of  the  Peace  and 
Jonathan  Forward,  of  London,  merchant,  transferred  and  made  over  to 
the  use  of  the  said  J(jnathan  Forward  or  his  assigns  for  the  said  terms 
of  seven  and  fourteen  years  upon  his  contracting  to  perform  the  said 
transportation.  The  condition  of  this  bond  therefore,  is,  that  if  the 
said  Jonathan  Forward  or  his  assigns  shall  take  and  receive  from  the 
f-aol  of  the  County  of  Bedford  the  said  persons  ordereil  to  be 
transported,  and  put  them  on  shipboard  and  transport  them  out  of 
i  Great  Britain   within  the  space   of  one   month  next,  and  as  soon   as 

conveniently    may   be  deliver  and   land   them    (death    and    ca.'^ualties 
of  the   sea  excepted  (at  and  upon  some  of  His  Majesty's  Culunicii   iu 


13 

America,  and  present  an  authentic  certificate  or  certificates  from  the 
Governor  or  chief  Custom  House  Officer  of  their  landing,  to  the  said 
Sir  William  Smith,  John  Cater,  and  Thomas  Armstrong,  or  to  any  two 
of  them,  and  if  the  said  Jonathan  Forward  or  his  assigns  shall  not  by 
his  or  their  wilful  neglect  suffer  any  of  them  to  return  into  any  part  of 
Great  Britain  or  Ireland  during  their  respective  terms,  or  if  the  said 

Jonathan   Forward  shall  pay  to  the  said Alallett  the  sum   of 

pounds  for  every  one  of  the   said  convicts   who   shall 

return  into  Great  Britain  or  Ireland,  then  this  bond  shall  be  void. 

30th  April.     Examination  of  Peter  Jones,  apprehended  in  the  parish  of  gg 
Knotting  for  begging  and  wandering. 

He  deposes  that  he  was  born  at  Leghorn  in  Italy,  and  is  now  about 
37  years  of  age.  That  when  he  was  about  seven  years  of  age  he  went 
from  Leghorn  to  i\Ialaga,  where  he  stayed  five  years,  and  then  went  on 
board  a  merchant  ship  belonging  to  the  port  of  Leghorn.  That  he 
went  to  Portugal  being  about  16  years  of  age.  That  at  Lisbon  he  was 
pressed  into  the  English  service  and  went  on  board  an  English  man-of- 
war,  and  has  ever  since  been  in  the  said  service,  either  as  a  soldier  or  a 
mariner  on  board  the  said  man-of-war  and  a  merchant  ship,  and  that 
about  a  fortnight  ago  he  landed  at  Portsmouth. 

Being  asked  if  he  could  speak  Italian,  and  being  required  to  render 
some  plain  and  easy  English  words  into  the  Italian  tongue,  he  declared 
that  he  did  not  understand  Italian,  except  that  he  knew  about  100 
Italian  words,  but  cannot  tell  what  they  signify  in  English  although 
he  can  talk  English  very  well. 

14th  January.      Henry   Staines'  Bill  for   the   charges  of  Mary   Barton,  a   98 
vagrant,  who  died  of  the  small-pox  at  Brumham  in  December  last,  1730. 

s.     d 
F'or  14  days'  board  of  the  nurse  nursing  her  and  washing 

up  the  linen 7     0 

For  the  vagrant's   board   and   lodging  and  firing  in  her 

room 7     6 

For  soai)  and  firing  for  washing  the  linen 1      6 

14th  January.     Bill  of  charges  of  the  constable  of  Brumham  for  Mary    100 
Barton,  a  vagrant,  who  died  of  the  small-pox  at  Brumham  in  December, 

1730.  s.  d. 

F'or  14  days'  hire  of  a  nurse  for  the  said  Mary  Barton  ..  13  0 

Paid  midwife  for  laying  her    5  0 

For  necessaries  at  her  lying-in,  and  beer  and  sugar  and 

other  things  with  cordial     10  0 

Hercofhn     8  0 

Parish  dues 2  6 

Affidavit  1  0 

Hiring  men  for  carrying  her  to  the  grave  6  0 

Beer  at  the  funeral 4  0 

Paid  two  women  for  laying  her  out  when  dead 2  0 

£2   11      G 


14 

Bill    of   charges   of  the  said  constable    for  a  child   of   the   said   Mary 

Barton.                                                                                                 £     s.  d. 

For  a  woman  nursing'  the  child  14  days,  and  for  eating     10  0 

Paid  a  woman  for  laying  out  the  child  1  0 

Coffin    4  0 

Parish  dues  2  6 

Affidavit  1  0 

£18  6 


106   29th  April.     Bill  of  the  Coroner  of  the  County  for  taking  an  inquisition 
on  the  body  of  Thomas  Lett,  13s.  4d. 


>732. 

4  8    March.     Warrants  for  the  conveyance  of  the  baggage  of  various  troops  of 
Horse  of  Viscount  Cobham's  Regiment  from  Bedford  to  Northampton. 

12   14   August.     Warrants  for  the  conveyance  of  the  baggage  of  various  troops 
of  the  same  regiment  from  Bedford  to  Royston, 

13   16     August.     Warrants  for  the  conveyance  of  the  baggage  of  various  troops  of 
17    ly  the  same  regiment  from  Dunstable  to  Hertford. 

15  28th  August.  Warrant  for  the  conveyance  of  the  baggage  of  Capt.  Madan's 
troop  of  Hui'se  in  the  same  regiment  from  Biggleswade  to  Barkway. 

20   21    23    October.     Warrant  for  the  conveyance  of  the  baggage  of  a  troop  of  the 
Duke  of  Bolton's  Regiment  from  Dunstable  to  Newport  Pagnel. 

24  25   5th  October.     Warrants  for  the  conveyance  of  the  baggage  of  a  troop  of 
the  King's  Regiment  of  Hoise  Guards  from  Bedford  to  Xorthampton. 

26,  27    6th  October.     Warrants  for  the  conveyance  of  two  troops  of  the  Duke  of 
Bolton's  Regiment  of  Horse  from  Luton  to  Bedford. 

28  7th  October.     Warrant  for  the  conveyance  of  the  baggage  of  a  troop  of 

Viscount  Cobham's  Regiment  of  Horse  from  Bedford  to  Baldock. 

29  9th  October.     Warrant  for  the  conveyance  of  the  baggage  of  a  troop  of 

the  same  regiment  from  Bedford  to  Hitchin. 

60  25th  October.  Recognizance  of  Savage  P^lderton,  of  Husborn  Crawley, 
gentleman,  for  his  ai)pearance  to  an.swer  for  keeping  a  gun  and  two 
spaniel  dogs  for  the  destruction  of  game,  he  not  being  qualilied,  as  it  is 
apprehended,  according  to  law. 


15 

18th  September.  Information  of  William  Osborne,  of  Wilshamstead.  66 
That  Mr.  John  Giirdeiier,  of  Wilshamstead,  on  the  4th  of  September 
last  hired  tlie  informant  at  statute  sessions,  in  the  parish  of  Hawnes,  to 
serve  him  in  the  business  of  husbandry  for  a  twelvemonth  from 
Michaelmas  next;  to  confirm  which  hiring  he,  the  said  Gardener  gave 
to  the  informant  one  shilling  as  earnest,  but  on  the  13th  September  the 
informant  went  to  the  said  ]\Ir.  Gardener  and  desired  him  to  take  back 
his  earnest  which  he  promised  to  do  if  the  informant  would  bring  it 
that  day  or  the  next.  On  the  evening  of  Wednesday  the  informant 
brought  the  said  money  to  the  said  Gardener,  who  not  only  refused  to 
take  it  but  also  assaulted  the  said  informant. 

24th  November.      Receipt  for  4  //'.  from   ^fr.  Cawne,   under-sherifF  of  the    93 
County  of  Bedford,  being  exhibition  money  due  from  the  said  County 
for  the  poor  prisoners  of  the  King's  Bench  and   Marshalsea   for  two 
years,  ending  on  the  24th  day  of  June  last. 

13th  July.      Petition  of  Nat.  Caustin,  a  prisoner  for  debt,   praying  to  be    101' 
allowed  the  County  bread. 

Like  Petition  of  William  Kilby.  lOP 

19th  April.     A  register  of  the  lands,  tenements,  i^'c,  of  George  Heneage,    116 
of  Hainton,  in  the  County  of  Lincoln,  in  the  County  of  Bedfoi'd. 

A  messuage  or  tenement  in  the  parish  of  St.  Paul,  in  the  town  of 
liedford,  in  the  possession  of  Christopher  Ruth  as  tenant  at  will,  at  the 
rent  of  12  //. 

The  tithes  of  the  parish  of  Goldington  and  a  parcel  of  land  in  the 
same  parish,  in  the  tenure  of  James  Whiffin  as  tenant  at  will,  at  the 
rent  of  102  //. 

A  messuage  or  farm  called  Newnham,  in  the  parislies  of  Goldington 
and  St.  Cuthbert,  in  the  tenure  of  Thomas  de  P'aldo  as  tenant  at  will, 
at  the  rent  of  80  li. 

A  water-mill  and  a  wind-mill  with  the  land  and  appurtenances 
belonging  in  the  parishes  of  (4oldington  and  St.  Cuthbert,  or  one  of 
them  in  the  tenure  of  Thomas  Brown  as  tenant  at  will,  at  the  rent 
of  20  U. 


1733- 

6th  jNIaich.     Warrant  for  the   conveyance  of  the  baggage  of  a  troop  of   3 
Horse  of  the  Duke  of  Bolton's  Regiment  from  Bedford  to  Ohiey. 

30th  May.      Recognizance  of  Thomas  Langhorne   and   Andrew  Cooper,    26 
churchwarden  and  overseer  of  Ampthill,  to  prosecute  Mary  Coates  and 
Samuel,  her  husband,  for  harbouring  ^lary  Saunders  and   her  bastard 
child,  and  for  their  procuring  the  said  Mary's  escape. 


16 

1734- 

2  19th  April.  Warrant  for  tho  conveyance  of  the  baggage  of  a  troop  of  tlie 
Queen's  Own  Koyal  Regiment  of  Horse  from  Dunstable  to  iS'ewport 
Pagnel. 

3,  13   ]\[ay.     Like  warrant  for  tlie  conveyance  of  the  baggage  of  a  company  of 
Col.  Thomas  Howard's  Regiment  from  Dunstable  to  Redbourn. 

4,  5,  6  ]\ray.  Warrant  for  the  conveyance  of  the  baggage  of  a  company  of  the 
same  regiment  from  Dunstable  to  Woburn. 

7,  8   20tli  May.     Warrants  for  the  conveyance  of  the  baggage  of  two  companies 
of  the  same  regiment  from  Dunstable  to  Hitcliin. 

10,  20  July.  Carriage  warrants  for  two  companies  of  the  same  regiment  from 
Woburn  to  Dunstable. 

li  16th  July.  Like  warrant  for  a  comi)any  of  the  same  regiment  from  Luton 
to  Dunstable, 

14  23rd  August.  Like  warrant  for  a  company  of  the  same  regiment  from 
Dunstable  to  Leighton  Buzzard. 

15,  16  29th  August.  Like  warrant  for  a  troop  of  the  King's  Royal  Regiment  of 
Horse  Guards,  commanded  by  Capt.  Jenkinson,  from  Dunstable  to 
St.  Alban's. 

17,  24 — 27   Like  warrant  for  a  troop  of  the  Duke  of  Argyll's  Royal  Regiment  of 
Horse  Guards  from  Dunstable  to  St.  Albans. 

22  12th  November.     Like  warrant  for  a  troop  of  the  same  regiment  from 

Dunstable  to  Hatfiehh 

23  13th  November.     Like  warrant  for  a  troop  of  the  same  regiment  from 

Dunstable  to  Redbourn  on  their  march  to  St.  Albans,  Ware,  Hertford, 
Hoddesden,  and  Redbourn. 

28,  30,   November.     Like  warrants  for  part  of  the   King's  Royal   Regiment  of 
31,  32  Horse  Guards  from  Dunstable  to  Hertford. 

58  3rd  December.  Bond  by  Jonathan  Forward  for  tlie  performance  of  a 
contract  to  transport  Fairfax  Rnshfield,  James  Hall,  Daniel  Piggott, 
John  Read,  and  William  Bonner,  convicted  of  felony,  to  some  of  the 
King's  Colonies  or  Plantations  in  America. 

61  9th  December.  Certificate  by  John  Cater,  Thomas  Armstrong,  Dennis 
Farrar,  and  Humphrey  Monou.x,  Fsqnires,  that  they  have  contracted 
with  Johnathau  Forwaul  for  the  transportation  of  the  above-named 
convicts. 


«735- 

15th  INIareh.     Carriage  warrant  for  the  Hononrahle  Thomas  Howard's   6 
Regiment  of  P'oot  from  Leightoii  IjuzzarJ  to  Winslow. 

15th  IMaroh.      Like  warrant  for  a  company  of   the   same  regiment   from    7 
Luton  to  Dunstable. 

15th  March.     Like  warrant  for  a  company  of  the  same  regiment  from   8 
Dunstable  to  Tame. 

15th  March.     Like  warrant  for  Major  Albntton  and  Captain  Borough's   9 
companies  from  their  present  quarters  at  Woburn  for  one  day's  march. 

17th   INtarch.     Like  warrant  for  a  company  of  foot  from  Ampthill  to   10 
Dunstable. 

I7th  March.     Like   warrant  for  a   company   of   Col.    Thomas  Howards'    H 
Regiment  of  Foot  from  Market  Street  to  Wendover. 

18th  March.     Like  warrant  for  a  company  of  soldiers  from  Dunstable  to    12,  14,   15 
Wendover. 

27th  March.     Like  warrant  for  a  troop  of  the  regiment  commanded  by   16,  17 
the  Earl  of  Pembroke  from  Leighton  Buzzard  to  Stony  Stratford. 

Marcli.      Like   warrants  for  various   troops   of  the  same   regiment   from    18 — 22 
Dunstable  to  Stony  Stratford. 

11th    October.     Like   warrants   for  two   troops   of  Lieut.-Gen,    William   29,  30 
Evans'  Regiment  from  Dunstable  to  Hertford. 

November.     Like  warrants  for  three  troops  of  the   same  regiment  from   32 — 34 
Dunstable  to  Stony  Stratford. 

23rd  A]»ril.      Recognizance  of  Thomas  Sands,  late  constable  of  Ampthill,    50 
for  his  appearance  to  answer  for  refusing  to   execute   a   warrant   from 
Lord  Fitz  William  and  Thomas  Armstrong,  Esquire,  to  make  a  j^rivate 
search  for  rogues,  vagrants,  and  sturdy  beggars. 

1736- 

2Gth    January.     Carriage    warrant   for   part   of   the   Regiment  of  Foot   4 
commanded     by     Lieut.-(ien.     William     'J'atton,    from "  Dunstable     to 
St.  All)aiis,  in  their  march  from  Biniiingliam  to  the  coast  of  Kent. 

February,  March.      Like  warrant  for  a  troop  of  the  Earl  of  Pembroke's   8,  26 
h'egiment  of  Horse  from  Amiithill  to  Dunstable. 

March.     Like  warrant  for  a  troop  of  the  same  regiment  from  Bedford  to   9,  18 
Luton. 


18 

10,  13,  16   March.     Like  warrant  for  a  troop  of  the  same  regiment  from  Leigh  ton  to 
Berkhampstead. 

11  22nd    March.     Like    warrant   for   a  troop  of   the  same   regiment   from 

Dunstable  to  Chesham. 

12  23rd  IMarch.     Like  warrant  for  a  troop  of  the  same  regiment  from  Bedford 

to  Ampthill. 

14,  15   24th  March.     Like  warrants  for  two  troops  of  the  same  regiment  from 
Luton  to  Hatfield. 

19,  20   27th  March.     Like  warrants  for  two  troops  of  the  same  regiment  from 
Lnton  to  Hertford. 

21 — 25   March.      Like  warrants  for  various   troops  of  the  same  regiment  from 
Dunstable  to  St.  Albans. 

27,  28,  34,   March,  April.     Like  warrants  for  various  troops  of  the  Duke  of  Argyll's 
35,  36,  37,  Regiment  from  Dunstable  to  Stony  Stratford. 

41,42 

29 — 32  March,  April.     Like  warrants  for  various  troops  of  the  same  regiment 
from  Luton  to  Woburn. 

33,  38   March,  April.     Like  warrants   for  various  troops  of  the  same  regiment 
from  Woburn  to  Stony  Stratford. 

39,  40   2nd  April.     Like  warrants  for  two  troops  of  the   same    regiment   from 
Leighton  to  Stony  Stratford. 

43,  44  7th  April.     Like  warrants  for  two  troops  of  the  same   regiment   from 
Hockliflfe  to  Stony  Stratford. 

45  8th    April.     Like    warrant   for  two  troops  of  Charles    Lord    Cadogan's 

Regiment  from  Dunstable  to  Stevenage. 

46  9th  April.     Like  warrant  for  one  troop  of  the  same  regiment  from  Woburn 

to  Dunstable. 

47 — 49   April.       Like    warrants    for  three   troops  of   the    same    regiment    from 
Dunstable  to  Hertford. 

51 58   26th  April.     Like  warrants  for  various  companies  of  Licut.-(!en.  Tatton's 

Regiment  of  Foot  from  Dnn.stal)le  to  St.  Albans. 

6,3  12th  IVfay.  Bond  by  Jonatlian  Forward,  of  London,  merchant,  foi'  flic 
performance  of  a  contract  to  transport  to  some  of  the  Kind's  Colonics 
or  Plantations  in  America,  Thomas  Johnson  convicted  of  felony. 

77  The  like,  amongst  others  William  AVhitbread,  the  younger,  of  Evei'sholt, 


19 

Calendar  of  prisoners  in  the  County  Gaol  : —  82 

Edward  Bright,  convicted  of  felony  within  benefit  of  clergy,  was 
burnt  in  the  hand  and  ordered  to  be  discharged  on  paying  his  fees. 

Miles  Mamnie,  convicted  of  an  assault  upon  Mary  Smith,  spinster, 
with  intent  to  ravish  her,  was  fined  five  marks  and  to  remain  without 
bail  or  mainprise  for  12  months,  after  which  he  is  to  find  sureties  for 
his  good  behaviour  for  three  years. 

13th    January.     Recognizance    of    Thomas    Hyde,    barber,    Nathaniel  33 
Atterton,  victualler,  and  Jonathan  Halsey,  victualler,  all  of  Biggleswade, 
for  their  appearance  to  answer  for  fishing  in  the  several  fishery  of  John 
Lord  Carteret. 

Certificate  by  Thomas  Armstrong,  Dennis   Farrer,   Humphrey  Monoux,    97 
and  William  Aspin,  Es({uires,  Justices  of  the   Peace,  that  they  have 
contracted    with    Jonathan    Forward,    of  London,   merchant,   for   the 
transportation  of  Thomas  Johnson,  a  convict. 

11th  February.      A   bill    of   charges    of    William    Stevens,    gaoler,    for   103 
carrying  Kichard  Paddock  to  London  in  order  to  his  transportation. 

£     s.  d. 

For  three  men  and  three  horses  as  a  guard 3     3  0 

One  night's  charges  upon  the  road  and  other  charges...  110 
For  waiting  upon  the  Clerk  of  the  Assize,  coach  hire, 

water  carriage,  and  charges  in  London 1   11  0 

Charges  down     0   15  0 

For  my  own  trouble  2      2  0 

Paid  the  wagoner  0     7  6 


£8   19     6 


1737- 

22nd  March.     Carriage  warrant  for  two  troops  of  Lieut.-Cen.  William   5 
Evan's  Kegimcnt  from  Dunstable  to  Chesham. 

22nd  March.      Like  warrant  for  three  troops  of  the  same  regiment  from    6 
Dunstable  to  St.  Albans. 

Gth  April.     Like  warrants  for  various  troops  of  the  Earl  of  Pembrcjke's   8 — 11 
Kegimcnt  from  Dunstable  to  -Newport  Pagnel. 

8th  April.     Like  warrant  for  a  troo[)  of  the  same  regiment  from  Dunstable    12 
to  Stony  Stratford. 


20 

38  Calendar  of  prisoners  in  the  County  Gaol : — 

Hugh  Montgomery,  convicted  of  a  misdemeanour  in  enti(nng  and 
procuring  one  William  \^'illis,  a  siiliject  of  His  Majesty,  to  depart  the 
kingdom  and  go  to  Potsdam  in  the  kingdom  of  Prussia,  with  intent  to 
enlist  him  in  the  service  of  the  King  of  Prussia,  being  a  foreign  Prince  ; 
he  is  fined  for  the  said  offence  five  pounds  and  committed  to  the 
County  Gaol  there  to  remain  without  bail  or  mainprise  for  three 
months,  and  until  he  shall  find  sureties  for  his  good  behaviour  for  three 
years. 

41  5th  October.  A  schedule  of  the  estate  of  John  Willis,  of  Great  Earford, 
yeoman,  a  prisoner  for  debt. 

Due  from  Hugli  Montgomery,  of  Bedford,  2  //.  by  money  lent ; 
"witness  and  voucher  thereof,  William  Willis,  now  in  Prussia. 

57  12th  January.  Certificate  by  William  Willsher  that  the  dwelling  house 
with  the  appurtenances  of  William  Gould,  of  llockliffe,  in  the  parish 
of  Chalgrave,  scrivener,  is  intended  for  a  meeting  place  of  Protestants 
dissenting  from  the  Church  of  England. 

60  20th  April.  Like  certificate  for  the  dwelling  house  of  Thomas  Willson, 
in  the  parish  of  Henlow,  wheelwright. 

69  Prisoners  bill  for  bread  from  July  l.'ith  to  October  3rd.  The  greatest 
number  of  prisoners  at  one  time  was  ten,  and  the  smallest,  one ; 
average,  about  seven. 

74  12th  January.  Bill  of  charges  due  to  William  Stevens,  gaoler  :  For 
removing  Mick  Wood  to  the  transport  6  li.  6s.  "For  hot  suppins*  for 
William  Sharman  w"  not  well,  2s." 

79  Indictment  of  Thomas  r)arranger,  of  Bedford,  tailor,  for  erecting  two 
cottages  at  Kempston  without  laying  four  acres  of  land  to  each. 

87  Indictment  of  John  Olncy,  of  the  pari.sh  of  King's  Houghton,  for  laying 
in,  upon,  and  over  a  certain  rivulet  or  biook  called  Seywell  Dryness 
Brook,  otherwise  called  Cross  Ih'ook,  in  the  said  parish  of  King's 
Houghton,  several  large  pieces  of  wooti  and  timber  whereby  the 
common  and  usual  course  of  the  stream  of  the  said  rivulet  or  brook 
was  stopped  and  obstructed,  by  which  stoppage  and  obstruction  the 
common  footway,  leading  from  the  parish  of  King's  Houghton 
aforesaid,  to  the  parish  of  Tils  worth  on  the  north-oast  i)art  of  the  said 
rivulet  or  brook  and  near  or  thereto  adjoining,  was  overHowetl,  and  the 
meadows,  ]>astures  and  commonable  places  near  the  said  brook  in  the 
parish  of  King's  Houghton  were  entirely  overflowed  and  drowned. 


Siippiiigs  : — SpOdiinn'iit.      "Supiiyiige  for  a  sickc  iiuiii,"  J'.t/si^iavi 
iialliwell  Pliillipps'  Dictionary. 


21 

1738. 

Fragment  of  an  order  for  the  repair  of  a  highway ;  the  name  of  the  parish    9 
is  gone. 

10th  April.      A    schedule   of    the    real   and   personal    estate    of    Clement    16 
Halsey,    of   Bedford,   brewer,  now  a  prisoner  for  debt   in   the   County 
Gaol. 

Sums  due  to  him  from,  amongst  others,  the  following  persons  : — 
^ — -Walker,  of  Bedford,  brewer,  on  bond  for  goods 


12  IL,  and  for  goods  left  in  his  hands   1  li.  lis.   6d. ; 

Underwood,  of  Maulden,  Edward  Goodhall,  of  Gravenhurst,  Dr.  Joseph 
Godfrey,  of  Sharnbrook,  for  three  years'  rent  due  at  Lady-day  last 
15  li,  "but  I  have  received  out  of  the  said  sum  three  guineas";  John 
Russell,  of  Bedford,  by  his  child's  schooling  15s.,  and  by  the  use  of  my 
cart  all  the  harvest  10s.  6d. 

An  inventory  of  the  household  goods  of  the  said  Clement  Halsey.  16» 

26th  April.     Recognizance  of  John  Bundy,  of  Feidake,  in  the  Parish  of   19 
Cardingtun,  farmer,  AVilliam  Urin,  of  Cardington  aforesaid,  farmer,  and 
Henry  Kussell  of  the  same,   schoolmaster,   fur  the  appearance  of  the 
said  Henry  Kussell  to  answer  for  assaulting  Ann  Collins,  daughter  of 
the  liev.  Barwell  Collins,  vicar  of  Cardington. 

7th  JSTovember.  Examination  of  John  Fowler.  He  says  he  is  now  about  36 
two  and  fifty  years  of  age  and  was  born  at  Maulden.  Upon  his 
leaving  Maulden,  being  unmarried,  he  let  himself  to  Henry  Hills  of 
Wootton,  a  farmer,  for  about  the  space  of  half  a  year.  From  there  he 
went  to  Kempston  Hard  wick  and  let  himself  to  Robert  Marrot,  farmer, 
for  one  year,  but  his  said  master  failing  he  lived  but  part  of  the  said 
year  with  him  and  then  returned  home  to  his  father  at  Maulden.  At 
the  statute  fair  at  Clophill,  upon  his  leaving  his  father  the  last  time,  he 
let  himself  to  John  Sams,  of  Clophill,  farmer,  for  one  year  and  lived 
with  him  the  whole  time,  and  upon  quitting  his  service  he  returned 
again  to  his  father's  house  in  ^laulden  wheie  he  worked  as  a  day 
labourer  until  he  married  his  first  wife  Jane  Wright,  and  then  returned 
with  his  said  wife  to  Clophill  where  they  lived  together  till  her  decease, 
by  which  wife  he  had  one  son  John  now  living.  Immediately  after 
the  decease  of  his  first  wife  he  went  again  to  Maulden,  and  there  lived 
with  his  aunt  Mary  Stanton,  widow,  gardener,  and  did  her  business  as 
a  gardener  for  about  fifteen  years  and  carried  out  her  goods  to  several 
markets  and  fairs,  and  she  constantly  paid  him  for  his  several  days' 
work,  and  when  he  went  to  any  market  or  fair  slie  would  sometimes 
pay  him  more  and  sometimes  less  according  to  the  length  and  shortness 
of  his  journeys,  and  at  all  times  when  she  allowed  him  but  lOd.  for 
one  day's  journey  she  also  allowed  him  the  whole  expenses  for  every 
such  day's  journey,  and  when  he  was  out  on  iier  business  for  any 
longer  time  then  she  allowed  him  more  besides  his  said  exp.>nses  ;  and 
when  he  worked  for  her  in  her  own  garden  she  t!ien  allowed  him  lOd. 
a  day.  aul  no  more,  and  that  he  then  paid  for  his  own  victuals,   but 


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during  the  whole  time  he  lay  at  her  house  he  paid  nothing  for  his 
lodging.  During  the  time  that  he  so  lodged  he  rented  a  ground  of  one 
Thomas  Underwood,  a  gardener,  at  3  li.  a  year  rent  upon  his  own 
account,  and  occupied  the  ground  as  a  gardener,  and  during  the  time 
he  held  the  saitl  ground  he  paid  all  parish  duties  for  the  same.  After 
he  qiiittetl  the  said  ground  he  took  a  house  and  ground  in  Maulden  at 
30s.  a  year,  of  one  Mr.  Bolding,  bailiff  to  Lord  Bruce,  but  never  paid 
any  parish  duties  for  the  said  house  or  ground  during  the  time  he 
occupied  the  same.  Upon  his  marrying  his  present  wife  Mary,  about 
9  or  10  years  ago,  he  came  to  his  own  house  in  Clophill  where  he  has 
lived  ever  since,  and  has  two  small  children  by  his  present  wife  born 
in  Clophill.  He  further  says  he  built  the  little  house  wherein  he  now 
lives  upon  the  waste  in  Clophill  at  his  own  proper  charges,  but  has  not 
paid  any  parish  duties  to  the  parish  of  Clophill  since  he  built  the  said 
house. 

61  Presentment  that  such  part  of  a  common  and  highway  as  is  in  a  certain 

place  called  Coblers  Lane,  in  the  parish  of- ,  leading  from 

the  parish  of  8teppingley  to  the  parish  of  Kidgmont,  is  out  of  repair. 

62  Indictment  of  "William  Parker,  of  Bedford,  grocer,  for  exercising  the  trade 

of  a  butcher,  "being  an  art,  mystery,  or  manual  occupation,"  without 
being  apprenticed  thereto  for  seven  years. 


1739- 

6   5th  May.     Carriage   warrant  for  a  detachment  of  Lord    Mark    Ker's 
Regiment  of  Uragoons  from  Biggleswade  to  Huntingdon. 

12  6th  October.  A  list  of  the  gentlemen  that  have  estates  in  Eaton  Socon 
and  not  residing  there,  and  also  others  of  10  U.  a  year  inhabiting  in 
Eaton  Socon.  : — 

His  Grace,  John,  L)uke  of  Bedford ;  John  Bigg,  of  Graffham,  in 
the  County  of  Huntingdon,  Esquire  ;  Joseph  Burch,  of  Brand,  in  the 
County  of  Suffolk  ;  Capt.  Merriday,  of  Hurtloe  ;  John  Knightly,  of 
Churciibury,  near  Warwick,  Esquire  ;  Esquire  Wyemott,  of  London  ; 
Robert  Pulleyn,  of  "Snots"  (?  St.  I^eots),  Esquire;   James  Hatley,  of 

;    Mr.    John    Trott,    of ;     Mr. 

William  Hatley,  of  St.  Ives  ;  Esquire  Thornhill,  of  Deddington,  in  the 
County  of  LIuntingdon  ;  Mr.  John  Turrell,  of  London ;  Mr  Bowles,  of 
London;  Mr.  Samuel  Luke,  of  Potton ;  Mr.  Caryer,  of  Potton  ; 
Dr.  Quinton,  of  London  ;  late  Mr.  Chadderdon,  of  Calton  ;  Wyemau 
Lee,  of  London,  Esquire  ;  Mr.  Lee,  of  Clifton ;  Mr.  Godfrey,  of 
London  ;  Mr.  Lewis  Goodfellow,  of  London  ;  Mr.  JSTiclass  and 
Mr.  Hugs,  of  London  ;  Mr.  Walker,  of  Southill  ;  Mr.  Lenton,  of 
Southill  ;  William  Metcalf,  of  Fordham  Abbey,  Esquire  ;  Mr.  Quidock, 
of  London  ;  Mr.  Bugg,  of  London  ;  Mr.  Adam  Hicks,  of  Oundle;    Mr. 

Christopher  Fox,  of  iJeanc  ;  Mr.  Mace,  of ;    j\lr.   Harding, 

of  Jvinibolton  ;  Mr,  Pashley,  of  late  Esquire  llillersdon's ;  Mr. 
Hey  worth,  of  Biggleswade ;  Mr.  Kingston,  of  London. 


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4th  October.     A  true  and  perfect  list  of  the  freeholders  and  copyholders  of   24 
the  parish  of  Roxton,  qiialitied  to  serve  on  juries,  according  to  the  late 
statute. 

William   Medcalf,   of  Fordham  Abbey,   Esquire  ;  Weynian  Lee,   of 

London,  Esquire  ;  Samuel  Luke,  of  Potton,  gentleman  ; 

Haywood,  of  Biggleswade,  gentleman  ;  Thomas  Ruse,  of  London, 
gentleman  ;  John  Wilson,  senior,  John  Barnard,  Joseph  Robinson, 
sworn  before  William  Becher. 


11th  June.     Recognizance    by    John     Fordham,     of    Potton,     for    his   30 
appearance  to  prosecute  William  and  Thomas  Cromp  for  endeavouring 
to  dispatch  his  mastiff  dog  with  a  cleaver,  and  threatening  to  do  the 
same  with  him. 


9th  July.  Recognizance  by  James  Cox  and  Vincent  Ruffgan  for  the  35 
appearance  of  the  said  James  Cox  to  answer  a  misdemeanour  in  sendin" 
away  Samuel  Circuit  and  Ann  Haines,  his  servants,  though  he  knew 
they  were  summoned  to  appear  at  the  petty  sessions  at  Northill,  this 
day,  to  answer  the  comjjlaint  of  the  Rev.  Mr.  Betts,  Vicar  of  Willington, 
for  refusing  to  pay  him  the  Easter  offerings  due  to  him  by  the  custom 
of  the  said  parish. 

26th  November.     Examination  of  George  Pierce.  46 

Being  charged  with  having  in  his  possession  a  silver  spoon,  the 
property  of  the  Duke  of  Kent,  he  owns  that  being  last  night  relieved 
at  the  house  of  the  said  Duke  he  perceived  the  said  silver  spoon  to 
stick  to  the  dish  in  which  victuals  were  brought  to  him,  and  then 
feloniously  took  and  carried  away  the  same. 

Certificate  by  Guthbert  Sheldon,  Justice  of  the  Peace,  that  a  certain  lane    50 
called    Cobler's    Lane,    lying    in    the    seveial    parishes    of    Eversholt, 
Ridgmont  and  Steppingley,  being  in  the  King's  highway,  is  now  in 
good  repair. 

Indictment  of  Edwanl  'Weekly,  of  Farndish,  Husbandman,  for  jiloughing,    {;:!0 
digging,   and  brenking  ii|)  the  highway  in  the  parish  of  Farndish,  in  "a 
certain  place  there  called  Rowbidge  Field,  being  30  poles  in  length  and 
one  pole  in  breadth. 

Presentment  that  a  certain  common  highway  called  Hangers  Wood  Lane,    83 
in   the  parish  of  Kempston,  leading  from  the  town  of  Sfachden,    other- 
wise Stagsden,   to  the  town  of  Elstow,  containing  in  length    "200  yards 
or  thereabouts,  and   in   lucadth  eight  yards  or  thereabouts,  is  out  of 
repair,  and  that  the  inhabitants  of  Kempston  ought  to  repair  the  same. 

A  fine  of  20  li.  imposed  upon  the  inhabitants  of  Kempston  if  they 
do  not  repair  the  said  highway  before  Michaelmas  next. 


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90  Indictment  of  John  White,  of  Bicrgleswnde,  blacksmith,  for  digging  two 
large  deep  pits  or  holes  of  about  five  feet  in  depth  and  length  against 
his  dwelling  house  in  a  certain  street  called  the  High  Street. 

97  25th  jNIarch.  Indenture  of  apprenticeshi])  (for  two  years)  between  Joseph 
Harris,  son  of  Oliver  Harris,  of  Clifton,  aiul  George  Fennell  of  Southill, 
cordwainer.  The  said  Fennell  covenants  to  pay  the  said  Harris  2s.  6d. 
weeklv  and  to  tin<l  him  lodging  and  small  beer. 


1740. 

28  9th  June.  List  of  persons  apprehended  in  the  parish  of  Studhani,  amongst 
others,  Patrick  Mackarthon  committed  to  the  house  of  correction  at 
ISedford  in  order  to  his  passing  over  the  sea  to  Ireland. 

35  16th  February.  Recognizance  of  William  Astery,  of  Maulden,  for  his 
appearance  to  answer  the  complaint  of  John  Browsall,  his  herdsman, 
for  refusing  to  pay  his  wages. 

48  20th  October.  Recognizance  of  Abraham  Everett,  of  Barton,  tailor,  to 
answer  for  stealing  a  book,  called,  "  A  Preparation  for  Death,"  a 
wooden  desk,  and  two  wooden  spoons,  the  goods  of  Thomas  Kettle. 

97  .3rd  July.  Depositions  of  Thomas  Walker,  tailor.  That  this  day  at 
Woburn  he  saw  a  boy,  one  Joseph  Barnes,  about  14  years  of  age, 
playing  at  "  a  tabic  with  an  index  to  it "  with  one  Hannah  Yarrow, 
being  an  unlawful  game  by  which  the  said  boy  was  defrauded  of  his 
money. 

101  19th  December.      Depositions  of  Tol)ia   Ikirk,  a  vagrant,   aged   40   years. 

That  his  father,  who  was  in  the  service  of  King  William  III.  and 
Queen  Anne,  told  deponent  that  he  was  born  in  Flanders.  On  the 
death  of  his  father  deponent  was  brought  to  London.  That  his  father 
was  a  legal  inhabitant  of  St.  Cairns,  within  thiee  miles  of  Burr,  in 
King's  County,  Ireland.  Deponent  was  left  with  his  mother  with  his 
Tincle  in  St.  James',  ('lerkenwell,  in  the  County  of  Middlesex,  where 
he  learnt  to  drive  hackney  coaches  and  to  ride  postillion.  He 
afterwards  lived  with  his  present  wife  in  a  cellar,  where  he  sold  a 
spirituous  liquor  called  gin,  but  an  information  being  laid  against  him 
he  went  to  his  wife's  friends  in  Lancashire.  (Jn  healing  from  his  wife 
about  thi'(>e  weeks  ago  that  all  matters  were  made  up  he  staited  to 
return  to  Lond(Ui,  but  his  money  giving  out  lie  was  forced  to  l)eg  in 
the  parish  of  Clophill,  and  was  relieved  by  several  of  the  parishioners. 
He  was  arrested  in  ("anifiton.  Deponent  says  he  Avas  never  a  hired 
servant  by  the  year  or  bound  apprentice  to  anyone. 

102  1st  April.     Fragment  of  depositions  as  to  riot  at  Biggleswade. 


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16th  January.  Certificate  by  the  Justices  of  the  peace  to  the  Lord  103 
Chancellor,  that  it  appears  upon  the  petition  of  the  minister,  church- 
wardens, and  principal  inhabitants  of  the  parish  of  Pulloxhill,  that  the 
parisli  church  of  Pulloxhill  is  by  length  of  time  become  very  ruinous 
and  decayed,  almost  all  the  roof  having  some  time  since  fallen  down, 
and  the  chancel  which  remains  covered  is  so  small  that  it  is  not  near 
sufficient  to  contain  the  inhabitants  of  Pulloxhill.  It  is  also  so  ruinous 
in  the  foundation  and  walls  that  the  same  can  no  longer  be  supported 
but  must  be  wholly  taken  down  and  re-built.  The  truth  whereof  was 
made  known  this  day  upon  the  oaths,  as  well  as  of  the  parishioners, 
as  of  Joseph  Neal  and  John  Heath,  carpenters,  and  Thoroughgood  Fan 
and  Robert  AVildman,  masons,  who  have  carefully  viewed  the  said 
church  and  made  an  estimate  of  the  charge  of  taking  down  what 
remains  of  the  same  and  building  a  church  there,  which  will  amount  to 
the  sum  of  £1083  6s.  and  upwards,  over,  and  besides  the  old  materials, 
which  said  sum  the  said  petitioners  being  unable  to  raise  among  them- 
selves, almost  all  of  whom  being  tenants  at  will,  at  rack  rents,  and  the 
charge  of  maintaining  their  poor  having  of  late  years  much  increased,  and 
having  given  satisfaction  that  they  have  to  the  utmost  supported  their 
said  church,  and  that  they  must  be  destitute  of  a  place  of  worship 
without  the  charitable  contributions  of  well  disposed  persons,  the 
justices  recommend  a  grant  of  letters  patent,  to  enable  the  said 
parishioners  to  receive  contributions. 

10th   July.       Certificate    signed    by    Samuel   Che  .  .  .  ,    John  Cooper,   111 
S.  Marsom,  and  Thomas  Cooper,  that  a  newly-erected  house  at  Thorne, 
in  the  parish  of  King's  Houghton,  near  the  messuage  of  John  Bunker, 
is  intended  to  be  used  as  a  place  of  worship  for  Protestant  dissenters. 

10th  January.     Estimate  for  re-building  Pulloxhill  Church.     Total  cost,   116 
with  the  old  materials,  £1083  6s.  6d. 

A  Bill  for  bread  delivered  to  the  Biidewell  for  14  days  from  19th  February    126 
to  26th  May,  6s.  9d. 
Marked  : — "  Allowed    upon    the   late    severity    of    the    weather    and 
dearness  of  provisions." 

Indictment   of   Edward    Walker,    of   Leighton    Buzzard,    innholder,    for    154 
obstructing  a  certain  highway  in  Leighton  Buzzard.     The  document  is 
faded. 

The  thirty = nine  Articles  subscribed  by  S.  Marsom.  155 


1741. 

February.     Warrants  for  the  conveyance  of  the  baggage  of  certain  troops    13  and  14 
of  the  Queen's  Royal  Regiment,  commanded  by  the  Duke  of  Montague 
from  Dunstable  to  Stony  Stratford.  °     ' 


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17  12th  February.  Warrant  for  the  conveyance  of  the  baggage  of  certain 
troops  of  the  regiment  commanded  by  General  Wade,  from  Dunstable 
to  St,  Alban's. 

49  Gaol  Calendar.  Francis  Chapman,  condemned  to  be  hanged  1st  August ; 
Garrick  Taylor,  convicted  of  grand  larceny,  and  sentenced  to 
transportation  for  seven  years. 

103  18th  March.  Examination  of  Elizabeth  Peircy,  vi^idow,  vagrant.  She  is 
the  widow  of  William  Peircy,  who  was  a  soldier  about  22  years,  and 
was  an  out-pensioner  of  Chelsea  Hospital,  and  died  in  St.  Thomas' 
Hospital  about  two  months  since. 

134  Indictment  of  John  Copland,  of  Wooton,  for  depasturing  sheep  and  doing 
damage  upon  a  piece  of  land  called  Wood  End  Green,  in  the  parish  of 
Wooton,  being  the  separate  common  of  the  several  cottagers  within  the 
said  parish,  and  indictment  of  others  for  rescuing  the  said  sheep  when 
being  driven  to  the  pound. 

135  and  136  Indictment  of  Anne  Sinker,  wife  of  Joseph  Sinker,  of  Heath  and  Eeach, 
labourer,  for  procuring  one  Robert  Carey,  of  Wooton,  grocer,  to 
counterfeit  a  letter  in  the  name  of  John  Fanch,  of  Heath  and  Reach, 
shepherd,  to  Phoibe  Yard,  of  Heath  and  Reach,  and  thereby 
fraundently  obtaining  money  from  the  said  Phoebe. 

145  Indictment  of  Thomas  Serjeant  for  rescuing  certain  sheep  found  doing 
damage  in  a  field  called  Lynch  Furlong,  in  the  parish  of  Milton 
Ernest,  in  the  occupation  of  John  Sturges,  and  which  were  being 
driven  to  the  pound. 


1742. 

20  Gaol  Calendar,  Edmond  Bate,  charged  with  stealing  one  beehive, 

William  Hipwell,  committed  by  Talbot  Williamson,  Esq.,  being  an 
evidence  against  Jeremiah  Chance,  and  Sacheverell,  Houghton,  for  high 
treason  ;  to  remain  in  gaol  till  discharged  by  due  course  of  law. 

21  Gaol  Calendar,  Walton,    William    Ramsden,  and   Sarah 

Ashwell,  ordered  for  transportation  to  some  of  His  Majesty's  Colonies 
and  Plantations  in  America  for  14  years. 

37  11th  March.  Recognizance  fur  the  appearance  of  Robert  Matthews,  of 
Dunstable,  to  prosecute  Samuel  Bitchenoe  for  stealing  a  turkey. 

90  Indictment  of  William  Pell  and  James  Bower,  overseers  of  the  poor  of 
Amplhill,  for  forcibly  removing  Edward  Randall  into  the  pest-house  at 
Ampthill  where  the  small-pox  of  a  malignant  nature  was  then  raging, 
they  well  knowing  the  said  Edward  not  to  be  infected  with  the  same. 


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1743- 

9tli  Septembpr.  Examination  of  Joshua  Knight,  late  a  labourer  of  64 
Potesgrave,  now  in  Curnwull's  Regiment  of  Marine.  He  deposes  that 
some  time  before  Michaelmas  last  he  was  hired  as  a  servant  in 
husbandry  at  Luton  Market,  by  John  Man,  of  Potesgrave,  yeoman,  to 
Michaelmas  following,  at  the  wage  of  £3  15s.  for  the  year,  but  he 
■was  discharged  on  9th  April  last  and  has  received  but  19s.  4d.  of  his 
wages. 

30th  March.     Account  of  Thomas  Richardson,  keeper  of  the  county  gaol.     83 
For  the  carriage  of  five  prisoners  to  be  transported  at  £4  per  man — .£20. 

Presentment  of  Henry  Wagstaff,  of  the  parish  of  Wilden,  yeoman,  and   103 
the  rest  of  the  pai'ishioners  of  Wilden,  for  permitting  the  highway  at  a 
place  called  Gripe's  Hole,  leading  from  the  town  of  Harrild  to  the  town 
of  Biggleswade  for  the  space  of  10  perches  to  fall  into  decay. 

Indictment  of  Robert  Fulfer  of  Cople,  yeoman,  for  rescuing  two  cows  the   109 
goods  of  the  said  Robert  which  were  found   trespassing  on   1st  July, 
upon  the  common  fields  and  commonable  places  within  the  parish  of 
Cople  and  were  being  driven  to  the  pound. 


1744. 

Warrant  to  arrest   Samuel   Sole   of  Millow,  in   the   parish  of  Dunton,    2 
labourer,  and  cause  him  to  find  sureties  for  his  appearance  to  answer 
for  exercising  the  trade  of  a  blacksmith  without  having  been  apprenticed 
for  seven  years. 

Gaol  Calendar,    Lawrence  Leach  and  James  Linney  ordered  to  remain  at   9 
the  last  assizes  for  the  murder  of  Thomas  Armsden  when  a  prisoner. 

Indictment  of  Thomas  Watford  for  rescuing  certain  sheep  found  trespassing   60 
upon  a  piece  of  ground  called  the  Lammas  Pightle,  in  the  parish  of 
K^ysoe,  belonging  to  John  Barber,  which  were  being  driven   to  the 
pound. 


1745- 

Jury  Panels.     The    following    amongst    other    names    appear  —  James   la  and  2a. 
Hawkins   of  Leighton  Buzzard,    also  (2a)  Robert  Carey   of   Woburn, 
George  Hawkins  of  Luton,  Thomas  Gascoigne  of  Bromham,  and  (2b) 
William    Whitbread  of  Eversholt,   Ambrose  Whitbread  of  the  same, 
and  William  Devereaux  of  Potton. 

17th  July,  1745.     Sacrament  Certificate  for  John,  Duke  of  Bedford.       20  and  20a. 
22nd  September.     The  same  for  Henry  Pye  of  Knotting.  21 


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48  Indictment  that  forty  sheep  helonging  to  John  Wright  of  Carleton,  were 
found  trespassing  and  doing  damage  upon  the  Common  field  and 
commonable  places  within  the  Parish  of  Chellington,  and  driven  to  the 
pound  at  Chellington,  and  that  the  said  John  Wright  broke  open  the 
pound  and  took  away  his  said  sheep.     See  also  1749,  No.  61. 

1746. 

20  28th  January.  Recognizance  for  the  appearance  of  Thomas  Hurst,  of 
Arlesey,  to  answer  for  defrauding  Edward  Cousens  for  paying  him  a 
gilt  shilling  instead  of  a  guinea. 

37  9th  April.  Oath  subscribed  by  Cuthbert  Sheldon  that  he  is  qualified  to 
act  as  a  justice  of  the  peace. 

54  Account  of  Thomas  Richardson  keeper  of  the  County  Gaol.  For 
transporting  Abraham  Sanders,  £6. 

69  Indictment  of  Thomas  Hurst  for  tendering  a  gilt  shilling  in  payment  to 
Edward  Cousens  instead  of  a  guinea. 


1747- 

9  Jury  Panel  for  the  Body  of  the  County,  amongst  the  Jury  being  Edmund 
Botsford  of  Woburn,  William  Whitbread  of  Eversholt,  Ambrose 
Whitbread  of  the  same,  Henry  Daniel  of  Dunstable,  John  Bumberry 
of  Potton,  John  Emery  of  Ravensden,  Edward  Emery  of  Willington. 

14   7th  April.     Recognizance  for  the   appearance   of  Thomas    Dunscombe, 
otherwise  Thomas  Tea,  otherwise  Tea  Tom. 


1748. 
38   Oath  Roll  signed  by  Joe  Whitbread. 

40  10th  January.     Certificate  that  a  house  in  the  possession  of  Daniel  Brown 

in  Luton  is  proper  and  convenient  for  the  meeting  of  a  sect  of 
Protestant  Dissenters  called  Quakers.  Signed  by  John  Freeth,  Daniel 
Brown,  Joseph  Brown^  and  Richard  Brown,  Quakers. 

41  5th  Miarch.     Like  Certificate  as  to  the  house  of  William  Brown  in  the 

Parish  of  Sundon  for  the  meeting  of  Protestant  Dissenters.  Signed, 
John  Fowler  and  Kingston  Fowler. 

45    A  bill  of  moneys  expended  by   Thomas  Richardson,  gaoler   of   Bedford 
Christmas  Gaol,  for  removing  George  Emery  to  the  Savey  in  order  for  "  Jibraltor  " 

Sessions.  £Q  Os.  Gd. 

56   14th  July.     Expenses  for  transporting  Sarah  Neale  ...     £7    6s.    Od. 


29 

12th  November.      Petition  of  John  Prudden  of  Luton  who  was  a  fugutive    61 
for  debt  in  the  l^lc  of  "  Ijerbiidu  "  in  the   West  Indies,  and  returned 
and  surremlereil  liiniself  a  prisoner  to  the  keeper  of  the  gaol  for  the 
County  of  Bedford,  prays  for  relief  under   the  Act   for  the  Relief  of 
Insolvent  Debtors. 

11th  January.  Indictment  of  Joseph  Carter,  grower  of  Markyate  Street,  91 
contractor  for  the  conveyance  and  maintenance  of  rogues  and  vagabonds, 
on  the  information  of  William  Blow,  of  Markett  Street,  in  the  County 
of  Bedford,  peruke  maker,  that  the  said  Joseph  received  into  his 
custody  one  Mark  Proudfoot  to  be  conveyed  from  Markyate  Street,  to 
Little  Brickhill  on  his  way  to  Ireland,  and  permitted  the  said  Mark  to 
go  by  himself  at  large  and  allowed  him  to  beg  from  door  to  door 
whereby  he  the  said  Joseph  has  forfeited  £20  the  moiety  whereof 
should  be  paid  to  the  said  William  Blow  as  informer. 

13th  July.  Presentment  by  Philip  Yorke  that  from  a  time  whereof  the  93 
memory  of  man  is  not  to  the  contrary  there  was  an  ancient  King's 
highway  commonly  called  Caynoe  Lane,  in  the  Parish  of  Clophill,  in 
the  County  of  Bedford,  leading  from  the  town  of  Ampthill  to  the  town 
of  Shefford,  and  a  certain  part  of  the  way  in  length  92  feet  and  in 
breadth  18  feet  is  in  a  ruinous  state  for  want  of  repair,  and  the 
inhabitants  of  the  Parish  of  Clophill  ought  to  repair  the  same. 

5th  October.     Certificate  by  Philip   P)irt  that  the  said  road  is  well  and    96 
sufficiently  lepaired. 


1749. 
Oath  Roll  signed  by  Francis  Hawkins  and  others.  39 

6th  April.     For  transporting  John  Rattley £6     Os.     Od.    43 

Similar  items  constantly  occur. 


50 


[October].     Moneys  laid  out  for  the  County  Gaol — 

For  a  cart  and  two  lines  to  vvliip  Elizalieth  Hill  and 

Mary  Brin  5s.     Od. 

Paid  the  Whipper      ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  7s.      6d. 

Petition  of  Alexandra  Skinner  of  Over  Dean,  in  the  County  of  Bedford,  a   55 
prisoner  for  debt  in  the  County  Gaol,   that   having  been  in  prison  a 
great  while,  during  which  he  has  been  supported  by  his  friends  and 
relatives,  but  they  are  no  longer  able  to  assist  him,  he  therefore  pravs 
for  a  share  of  the  prison  bread. 

Indictment  of  Elizabeth  Hill,   of  Ampthill,  for  the  theft   of  a   piece  of  59 
silver  called  a  silver  boat,  valued  lOd.,  the  property  of  Edward  Harvey, 
clerk.     The  same  Elizabeth  also  indicted   for  the   theft   of   cups    &c 

•       (No.  63). 


30 

62    Indictment  of  Mary,  the  Avife  of  John  Brin,  of  Flitwick,  for  the  theft  of 
three  pounds  of  bacon  value  lOil. 

71— S    Papers  relating  to  proposals  for  the  convcnanct^  of  vagrants. 

76   Orders  for  the  destruction  of  cattle  infected  with  the  plague. 

1750. 

50   Smith's  work  at  tiie  County  Qaol — 

A  large  staple  lined  for  the  condemned  room  ...  6d. 

A  large  staple  for  the  dungeon  door...  ...  ...  6d. 

57   Account  for  repairs  to  Eaton  Socon  Bridge. 

80   Presentment  that  the  last  arch  at   the  East  end   of  Bromham  Bridge 
requires  repair. 


1751- 

42  27th  September.  Ale=house  Recognizances,  giving  the  names  of  the 
various  Inns  in  the  Town  of  Bedford  and  elsewhere,  viz.  : — The  Boat, 
the  Wheatsheaf,  the  Chequer,  the  Blue  Lion,  the  Dolphin,  the  Rose, 
the  Sun,  The  Green  Dragon,  The  Bakers  Arms,  the  Sun  in  St.  Pauls, 
the  Castle,  the  Crown  and  Thistle,  the  Bachelors  Arms,  the  Horse-shoe, 
the  Bull,  the  Cock,  the  "  Flower  de  Luce,"  the  Duke  of  Cumberland's 
Head,  The  Saracen's  Head,  the  Christopher,  the  Globe,  the  Golden  Pot, 
the  Cherry  Tree,  the  Rose  and  Ch'own,  Horse  and  Hound,  The  Crown, 
the  Bell,  the  Ship,  the  Ragged  Staff  in  St.  Paul's,  the  Cross  Keys,  the 
Bell  and  Swan,  the  Checjuer  in  St.  John's,  the  Saddle,  the  Angel  in 
Cawdwell  Street,  the  White  Lion,  the  Red  Lion,  the  Star,  the  George, 
the  Crow,  the  Boat,  the  Bear,  the  Fox,  the  Royal  Oak,  the  Xag's  Head, 
the  Black  Swan,  the  White  Hart,  the  Falcon,  the  Old  Nags  Head,  the 
Blue  Bell,  the  Spread  Eagle,  the  Swan,  the  Currier's  Arms,  the  White 
Hart,  the  King's  Arms,  the  Sergeant's  ?  Head,  the  Maiden  Head,  the 
Rugged  Staff,  the  Golden  Lion,  the  Chequers  in  St.  Mary's,  the 
"  Flower  de  Lis  "  in  St.  Paul's,  the  Unicorn,  the  White  Horse,  the 
Three  Tuns,  the  Red  Lion  in  St.  Paul's,  the  Boy  and  Oar,  and  the 
Robin  Hood. 

89  and  90   18th  July.     Expenses  of  having  James  Bolls  whipped 

at  the  carts  tail — For  the  horse  and  cart 
For  the  man  whipping  of  him 
For  a  man  leading  the  horse... 
Like  expenses  for  whi))ping  Henry  Potter,  at  Amj)thill 

— The  attendance  of  ?>dmund  Bourke  ... 
Transporting  John  Phillips  ... 
For  charges  and  attending  to  have  Catherine  Smith 

whijiped  at  Dunstable    ... 
For  charges  and  attending  to  have  William  Cooper 

whipped  at  Ampthill     ... 


2s. 

6d. 

2s. 

6d. 
6d. 

£1 

Is. 

Od. 

M 

Os. 

Od. 

£[ 

10s. 

Od. 

£1 

Os. 

Od. 

31 

Indictment  of  Richard  Chamberlain  and  John  Christmas  for  uttering  base    95 
coin  of  the  Kingdom  of  Portugah 

The  thirty=nine  Articles  signed  by  William  Hills  and  .William  Ivnowles.    121 


1752. 

March.       Account   for    wliipping  John  Yoxon,   at    Ampthill,  and   for   41 
transporting    John    Goodman,    John    Dawes,    Henry    Barker,    George 
Ward,  John  Langley,  and  Ann  Bailey  ...  ...     £32     os.     Od. 

Account  for  repairs  to  Eaton  Socon  Bridge.  42a. 

Account  for  repairs  to  St.  Neots  Bridge.  43f.  and  g. 

Petition  of  William  Ashbolt,  prisoner  in  Bedford  Gaol,  for  bread,  that  he   49b. 
is  in  a  starving   condition    not   having   had   enough   to   subsist  upon 
except  by  the  kindness  of  the  gaoler. 

Petition  of  the  inhabitants  of  Leighton,  to  the  Justices  of  the  Peace,  51 
pointing  out  the  disadvantages  of  the  prohibition  of  fairs  and  markets 
for  horned  cattle  made  at  the  last  Quarter  Sessions,  because  when 
fairs  and  markets  are  held  at  the  end  of  the  town  in  another  County 
distempered  cattle  may  be  brought  thither  in  defiance  of  any  measure, 
and  that  the  hair  market  was  very  nearly  being  removed  to  Aylesbury 
and  Windslow  in  the  County  of  Bucks. 

Indictment  of  Robert  Adams  for  cutting  wood  in  Kings  Wood   in  the   52 
Hamlet  of  Heath  and  Reach. 

Indictment  of  William  Knight  of  Luton  for  wilful  and  corrupt  perjury.        56 

Indictment  of   the    inhabitants   of  the    Parish    of  Melchbourn   for   not   57 
repairing  the  highway  called  Court  Lane  otherwise  Clay  Furlong  Lane 
in  the  Parish  of  Melchbourn,  from   Melchborn  to  Skelton,   10  perches 
in  length  8  yards  in  breadth  of  which  is  out  of  repair. 


1753. 

8th  March.     Recognizance  of  W^illiam  Syers  and  John  Bitchino  not  from    20 
henceforth  keeping  a  dicing  table  or  use  or  exercise  any  unlawful  game 
contrary   to  the   Statute  33   Henry  YIIl,  entitled  "  The  Bill  for  the 
maintaining  Artillery  and  the  debarring  of  unlawful  games." 

25th  April.     Recognizance  of  George  Cooper,  of  Elstow,  and  John  Wells   21 
for  their  appearance  to  give  evidence  against  Elizabeth  Cooper  for  her 
eloping  from  her  family  in  the  Parish  of  Elstow,  and  for  embezzling 
the  goods  of  her  husband. 

A  bill  for  masons  work  on  Bromluim  Bridge.  59 


32 

68    Bill  for  repair  of  Barford  Bridge. 

87    Indictment  of  Elizabeth  Jones,  of  Chalgrave,  for  stealing  a  Leghorne  hat 
and  scarlet  cloak. 

91a.    Presentment  that  Barford  Bridge  ought  to  be  repaired  by  the  County. 

92    Presentment  that  the  ditch  and  footway  in  "SliW    Lane  in   the  Town  of 
Bedford  is  in  a  dangerous  condition. 


1754- 

36a.    AIe=house  licenses  for  the  town   of  Bedford,   giving  the   names  of  all 
Inns  and  Taverns  there. 

49  19th  December.  Recognizance  by  Edward  Bust  of  ISIaulden,  labourer, 
and  others,  for  the  appearance  of  the  same  Edward  to  plead  to  an 
indictment  for  unlawfully  exercising  the  art,  mistery,  or  manual 
occupation  of  a  baker,  not  having  served  a  legal  apprenticeship  thereto. 

79  Account  of  "  leg  locks  "  supplied  to  the  Bridewell. 

80  Account  of   the    Gaoler — For   conveying   away   John 

Sandy,     William    Smith,     and     William     Acton    for 

transportation  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...      XI 5     Os.     Od. 

95   28th  September.      Account    of    the    Gaoler    of    the 

County    Gaol — For   conveying   away  six   men    for 

transportation  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...     £'2S     5s.     Od. 

110   Indictment  of  William  Juggins  for  perjury 

113    Indictment    of    Rt)bert    Newton    for   using   the   art,   mystery,  or  manual 
occupation  of  a  barber  without  having  been  apprenticed  thereto. 


1755- 

53    Expenses  of  erecting  a  windmill  and   ventilators   with   all   the   a}iparatus 
necesi^ary  for  ventilating  the  County  Gaol. 

65    Estimate  for  the  repair  of  Stafford  Ih-idge,  Bedford, 

93b.  Indictment  of  Thomas  Harborougli,  of  Maulden,  for  diverting  a  water- 
course, thereby  damaging  a  footway  from  Greenfield,  in  the  Parish  of 
Pulloxhill,  to  Ampthill. 

95   Declaration  by  John  Wilkes  of  his  qualification  to  act  as  a  Justice  of  the 
Peace  for  the  County  of  Bedford. 


50 

53 

5s. 

Od. 

5s. 

Od. 

5s. 

Od. 

2s. 

6d. 

2s. 

Od. 

1756. 

To  the  Jury  on  viewing  the  body  of  Thomas  Whiteman,  27 

the  highwayman  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  2s.     Od. 

To  the   Northampton  Mercury  for  inserting  adver-  40 

tiseraents  rehiting  to  vagrants  ...  ...  ...  6s.      6d. 

Account  of  repairs  to  the  Great  Bridge  at  Eaton  Socon  in  Bedfordshire.      44 

Account   of   transporting   of   George    Lawson,    John  49 

Wiltshire,  and  John   Bunyan,  and  William   Mead,  at 
£4  per  man    ...  ...  ...  ...  ...  ...       £16     Os.     Od. 

Account  for  repairs  of  St.  Neots  Bridge. 

Charge  of  having  Robert  Hatton  and  John  Sanders 
whip]ied  at  the  carts  ass  {sic)  according  to  the  order 
of  the  Court — 

Horse  and  cart  ... 
Beadle     ... 

To  the  same  a  second  time  whipping  of  Hatton — 

Horse  and  cart  ... 
To  the  Beadle  ... 
To  assistance 

Record   of  the  conviction  of  John  Wheeler,  of   Harlington  for  swearing  94 
thirty  profane  oaths. 

Report   upon    the    demand    sent    in    by    the    representatives   of  William   97 
Goldsmith,  late  Clerk  of  the  Peace,  for  charges  on  behalf  of  the  County 
by  which  it  appears  that  the  office  of   Clerk   of  the  Peace  was  worth 
yearly  from  fees  and  perquisites  £140,  and  from  salary  usually  allowed 
by  the  County  £10. 

Deposition  of  Martha  Crutchley,  widow,  that  before   Michaelmas,  1754,   99 
"  she  let  herself  as  a  hired  servant  to  John  Walker,  of  Wilden,  in  the 
County  of  Bedford,  labourer,   for  one  whole  year,"   and  she  cannot 
obtain  her  wages. 

Orders  as  to  remuneration  of  the  Clerk  of  the  Peace.  101 


1757- 

Michaelmas  Sessions.     Order  that  a  6d.  rate  be  granted  to  the  surveyors   7 
of  the  highways  within  the  parish  of   St.   Cuthbert,    in   the   town  of 
Bedford,  towards  repairing  the  highways  in  the  said  parish,  the  usual 
and  ordinary  duty  not  being  sufficient  to  repair  the  same. 

19th  September.     List  of  alehouse  keepers  in  the  town  of  Bedford  to  the    31 
number  of  60. 


M 

1758. 

6  19th  June.  Record  of  the  conviction  of  Jonathan  Chapman,  of  Luton,  for 
swearing  five  oaths  and  of  Richard  I'wigg,  of  Luton,  for  swearing  two 
oaths. 

34  28th  July.  Certificate  of  qualification  of  Rohert  Henry  Onglcy,  as  a 
deputy  lieutenant  of  the  County  of  P>edford.  He  has  certain  lands  in 
the  parish  of  Southill  of  the  yearly  value  of  £400  and  upwards. 

67 — 85    Bills  for  repairs  to  St.  Neots  bridge. 

107  Presentment  that  there  is  a  certain  common  and  ancient  highway  leading 
from  the  village  of  Litlington  to  the  village  of  Wooton,  and  that  a 
certain  part  of  the  said  highway  called  Marston  Lane,  in  the  parish  of 
Marston  Moreton,  containing  in  length  one  furlong  (more  or  less),  and 
also  a  certain  other  part  of  the  said  highway  in  the  said  parish  of 
Marston  Moreton,  from  the  end  of  the  said  lane  to  a  house  called  by 
the  name  or  sign  of  the  Horse  Shoes,  containing  in  length  one  furlong 
(more  or  less),  are  out  of  repair,  and  that  the  inhabitants  of  the  parish 
of  Marston  Moreton,  ought  to  repair  the  same. 

111  Indictment    of   John    Thompson,    in    the    jiarish    of    vSt.    Peter    INIartin, 

otherwise  St.  Peter  in  the  Fields,  in  the  town  of  P)edf()rd,  labourer,  for 
exercising  the  trade  of  a  shoemaker  without  having  been  apprenticed 
thereto  for  seven  years. 

112  Indictment  of  John   Bull,   of  the  parish   of   St.   Paul,   in  the  town   of 

Bedford,  yeoman,  for  exercising  the  trade  of  a  tailor  without  having 
been  apprenticed  thereto  for  seven  years. 

1759. 

50  1st  October.  Certificate  by  George  Francher  and  William  Yowell  stating 
that  whereas  in  the  year  1752  the  chapel  situate  in  the  parish  of 
St.  Peter,  in  the  town  of  Bedford,  was  registered  in  the  archdeacon's 
court  of  the  said  town  as  a  place  appointed  for  the  religious  use  of 
protestant  subjects,  known  by  the  name  of  Unitas  Fratrum  ;  and 
whereas  a  large  room  has  since  been  built  adjoining  the  said  chapel  on 
the  east  side  in  the  minister's  house  on  the  second  storey,  the  said  room 
is  now  appointed  solely  for  religious  uses  and  as  a  vestry  room  to  the 
said  chapel. 

66  Indictment  of  Sarah  Lightfoot  and  James  Lightfoot  for  stealing  in  the 

parish  of  St.  Paul,  in  the  town  of  Bedford,  a  parcel  of  sea  coals  of  the 
value  of  .3d.,  the  goods  of  the  Duke  of  Bedford. 

67  Indictment  of  Jonathan  Quime,  of  the  parish  of  ]\Iaulden,  labourer,  master 

of  the  workhouse  of  the  said  parisli,  for  neglecting  to  provide  sufficient 
sustenance  and  firing  for  William  Carter,  an  infant  at  the  age  of 
18  months;  for  permitting  William  Carter,  the  elder,  labourer,  then 
suffering  from  violent  sickness  to  lie  in  the  said  workhouse  on  stiaw 
and  without  covering  and  sufficient  relief,  and  for  placing  in  two  rooms 
of  the  said  workhouse  several  men,  women,  and  chihlren,  promiscuously 
to  the  nundier  of  18  at  least,  being  the  poor  of  Maulden,  to  the  great 
peril  of  their  health. 


35 

1760. 

16th  Jul3^     Presentment  that  Stafford  Bridge,  a  county  bridge,  is  out  of  43 
repair,  and  ought  to  be  rejjaired  at  the  charge  of  the  county. 

1 6th  July.     Presentment  that  the  highway  in  the  parish  of  Tuddington,    44 
wliich  leads  from  the  north  end  of  the  town  of  Tuddington  to  the  parish 
of  Westoning,  is  out  of  repair. 

Assessment    of   a    fine    of    <£50    upon    the    inhabitants    of    the    parish    of 
Tuddington  if  the  same  is  not  repaired  before  5th  October. 

16th  July.  Presentment  that  the  highway  which  leads  and  extends  45 
itself  westward  from  the  town  of  Luton,  market  town,  in  the  parish  of 
Luton,  to  and  through  a  certain  lane  in  the  parish  of  Luton  called 
Clay  Lane  or  Doller  Lane,  and  thence  on  westwards  to  and  through 
.part  of  the  parish  of  Houghton  Kegis  towards  and  to  the  town  of 
Dunstable  is  out  of  repair. 

Assessment  of  a  fine  of  £50  upon  the  inhabitants  of  Luton  if  tlie  said 
highway  is  not  repaired  before  5th  October. 

16th  July.  Presentment  that  there  is  a  highway  called  Icknell  way,  46 
which  leads  and  extends  itself  westwards  from  the  parish  of  Dunstable, 
through  part  of  the  parish  of  Houghton  Eegis,  to  the  parish  of 
Tottenhoe,  and  thence  through  part  of  the  parish  of  Tottenhoe  to  the 
parish  of  Eaton  Bray,  and  thence  through  part  of  the  parish  of  Eaton 
Bray  to  the  parish  of  Edlesboro',  and  that  so  much  of  the  said  highway 
as  lies  in  the  parish  of  Eaton  Bray  is  out  of  repair. 

Assessment  of  a  fine  of  £50  upon  the  inhabitants  of  Eaton  Bray  if  the  said 
highway  is  not  repaired  before  5th  October. 

Presentment  that  there  is  a  highway  called  Icknell  way,  which  leads  and    47 
extends  itself  westwards  from  the  parish  of  Dunstable,  on  and  through 
l)art  of  the  parish  of  Houghton  Regis  to  the  parish  of  Tottenhoe,  and 
so  much  of  the  said  highway  as  lies  in  the  parish  of  Houghton  Kegis 
is  out  of  repair. 

Assessment  of  a  fine  of  £50  u[)on  the  inhabitants  of  the  parish  of  Houghton 
Kegis  if  the  said  highway  is  not  repaired  before  5th  October. 

16th  July.     Presentment  that  so  much  of  the  said  highway  called  Icknell   48 
way  as  lies  in  the  parish  of  Tottenhoe  is  out  of  repair. 

Assessment  of  a  fine  of  £50  u()on  the  inhabitants  of  the  parish  of  Tottenhoe 
if  the  said  highway  is  not  repaired  before  5th  October. 

Record   of  the    conviction   of   James    Clarke,    of    Leighton    Buzzard,    for   50 
allowing  gaming  with  curds  iu  his  alehouse. 


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1761. 

17  20th  March.  Recognizance  for  the  appearance  of  Arthur  ElHiigham  and 
others,  to  give  evidence  against  Robert  Clark,  of  Flitton,  labourer,  for 
stealing  flour,  barley,  cheese,  &c.,  the  property  of  the  said  Arthur 
Ellingham. 

21  6th  October.  Recognizance  for  the  appearance  of  John  Simpson,  of 
Langford,  farmer,  to  answer  for  getting  Mary  Ampthill  with  child. 

68  Indictment  of  Richard  Clare,  of  Clophill,  dealer  in  hogs,  for  as.saulting 
Martha  Hare,  wife  of  Isaac  Hare. 

1762. 

20    11th  January.     A  list  of  the  constables  of  the  town  of  Bedford  : —  . 

William  Skevington,  constable  of  East  Ward. 

William  Triston,  „  West  Ward. 

William  Harris,  ,,  Mill  Lane  Ward. 

Abraham    Patstone,  ,,  Well  Street  Ward. 

Thomas  Sammon,  „  Prebend  Ward. 

John  Ruderford,  „  St.  Loyd's  Ward. 

William  Linford,  ,,  High  Street  Ward. 

Lawrence  Willis,  ,,  Cauldwell  Street  Ward. 

"William  Savage,  ,,  Potter's  Street  Ward. 

John  Purser,  ,,  St.  John's  Street  Ward. 

Thomas  Lane,  „  St  Cuthbert's  Ward. 

John  Rose,  „  St.  Peter's  Ward. 

23  10th.  May.  Recognizance  for  the  appearance  of  Jacob  Shaw,  of 
Toddington,  farmer,  to  answer  for  assaulting  the  wife  of  William  Sutton, 
of  Toddington,  butcher  (see  No.  39,  indictment  of  the  said  Jacob 
Shaw). 

26  4th  October.     Recognizance   for   the    appearance   of   James    Bailey,    of 

Biggleswade,  wheelwright,  and  John  Castle  of  Baldock,  co.  Hertford, 
labourer,  to  give  evidence  against  James  Oucham,  labourer,  charged 
with  stealing  a  horsewhip  and  two  girths  out  of  the  stable  of  Sir  Roger 
Burgoyn  at  Sutton. 

27  4tli  October  Recognizance  for  the  appearance  of  Richard  Booth,  of  Sutton, 

gentleman,  to  prefer  an  indictment  against  the  said  James  Oucham 
(see  No.  41  indictment  of  the  said  James  Oucham). 

1763. 

27  ir)th  January.  Recognizance  for  the  appearance  of  Benjamin  Lyne,  of 
Ampthill,  yeoman,  and  Henry  Bradford  of  the  same,  labourer,  to  give 
evidence  against  William  Peake,  of  Houghton  Conquest,  for  stealing  a 
quantit}^  of  beans  out  of  the  barn  of  the  said  Benj;uiiiii  Lynes. 

29  2ii(l  March.  Recognizance  for  the  appearance  of  (leorge  Diiukwater,  the 
elder,  and  Ocurge  l)rinkwater,  the  younger,  of  Todington,  hdrsc  dealers 
and  cha[)men,  and  to  keep  the  peace  towards  John  Bidket,  of  Tedington. 


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10th  June.     Recognizance  for  tlie  appearance  of  Joseph  Hall,  of  Campton,   31 
to  give  evidence  concerning  the  place  of  his  legal  settlement. 

26lh  July.      Recognizance  for  the  appearance  of  Thomas    GiJdings,   of    33 
Silsoe,  wheelwright,  to  prefer    a    bill    of    indictment    against    William 
Peacock,  of  Silsoe,  charged  with  stealing  a  brass  kettle  the  property  of 
the  said  Thomas  Giddings. 

Indictment  of  John  Bishop,  of  Tuddington,  yeoman,  for  assulting  George   87 
Drink  water. 

Indictment  of  William  Peak  for  the  theft  (see  No.  27  ante).  88 

Indictment  of  William  Rhodes,  of  Hockliife,  labourer,  for  maliciously  89 
driving  a  wagon  with  broad  wheels  and  drawn  by  eight  horses  in  the 
highway  at  Hocklitfe  against  a  post  chaise  belonging  to  Mary  Chapman 
widow,  and  drawn  by  two  horses,  in  which  post  chaise  William 
Addington  and  John  Addington,  esquires,  were  then  travelling,  whereby 
the  said  chaise  was  overturned. 

Apprenticeship    Indentures.     William   Flood    (with    consent   of   his   93 
mother  and  the  corporation  of  Bedford,  Trustees   of  a  charity  given  by 
Sir    William    Harpur,   kt.,)    is    apprenticed    to    Henry    Beaumont,   of 
Bedford,  cordwainer,  in  consideration  of  12/.  paid  by  the  said  Trustees. 

1764. 

20Lh  March.     Recognizance    for   the    appearance    of    Anne    Jeves,    of   28 
Biggleswade,  widow,    to   prefer  a   bill   of  indictment   against  Thomas 
Gardener,  of  Biggleswade,  surgeon,  for  an  assault. 

20th  March.     Recognizance  for  the  appearance   of  James  Pepercorn,  of    29 
Little    Staiightou,    farmer,    to    prosecute    James    Midlow,     of    Little 
Staughton,  for  assault. 

Recognizance  for  the  appearance  of  Samuel  Miller,  of  Woburn,  gentleman,   34 
to  prosecute  Martha  Irons  for  stealing  an  "iron  sweep  "  of  a  pump,  the 
property  of  John,  Duke  of  Bedford. 

Indictment  of  William  Peacock,  of  the  hamlet  of  Selsoe,  in  the  Parish  of   89 
Plitton,  for  stealing  a  large  Conim(jn  Prayer  Book,  value  lOd. 

Indictment  of  Margaret  Ashby,  for   stealing   a   pair   of   woman's   leather   90 
pumps,  value  lOd. 

1765- 

3rd  Apiil.  Recognizance  of  Thomas  White,  of  Kenipston,  and  Nathan  34 
Goodwin,  the  elder,  of  Wootton,  farmer,  to  cause  Nathan  Goodwin,  the 
younger,  to  a|)pear  to  answer  the  complaint  of  the  overseers  of  the  Poor 
of  the  Parish  of  Kenipston,  against  the  said  Nathan  Goodwin  the 
younger,  for  intruding  himself  into  the  Parish  of  Kenipston  after  being 
removed  thence  by  an  order. 


38 

38  Recognizance  for  the  appearance  of  of  Spencer  How,  senior,  of  Bedford, 

cordwainer,  for  assaulting  his  daughter,  Sarah  How. 

39  10th  July.      Recognizance  for  the  appearance  of  JacuL  Smith,  of  Klstow, 

to  answer  for  stealing  the  })urse  of  Richard  Willis,  of  Elstow. 

48  Gth  JNIarch.  Petition  of  Jose])h  Mead,  of  Stretley,  in  the  paiish  of  Stretly, 
that  his  dwelling  house  at  Stretley  may  be  licensed  for  the  use  of 
Protestant  dissenters  in  which  to  meet  for  religious  worship. 

48a  15th  May.  Certificate  hy  William  Sheed  of  the  conviction  of  John  Hill, 
of  the  Parish  of  St.  Paul,  Bedford,  for  swearing  four  profane  Oaths  for 
which  he  was  fined  4s. 

48b  17th  Septeml:)er.  Certificate  by  Edmund  Wodley,  Thomas  Coleman,  and 
Thomas  Hanley,  the  minister,  chapel  warden,  and  overseer  of  the 
handet  uf  Billington,  in  the  Parish  of  Leighton  Jkizzard,  and  others, 
recommending  John   Humbles  to   be   licensed   as   a   badj/er   or  dealer 


63  9th  Octol:)e,r.     Certificate  by  Owen  Gough,  curate   [of  Leighton  Buzzard], 

the    Churchwardens,    and    others,    recommending    William    James    of 
Leighton  Buzzard,  to  be  licensed  as  a  dealer  in  shee])  and  cattle. 

64  Certificate  by  the  churchwardens  and  overseers  of  the  ])Oor  of  Biggleswade 

recommending  Thomas  Pepper  to  be  licensed  to  keep  a  public  house  at 
the  sign  of  the  White  Horse,  in  Biggleswade. 

73  Account  for  bread  delivered  to  the  county  gaol  from  April  17  to  July  1. 
Total  £5   14s.  5d. 

•78    Account  of  Uriah  Clayson  for  repairing  Llarrold  Bridge. 

86   Account  of  Thomas  Bichardson,  keeper  of  the  county  gaol. 

To  transporting  John  Leachford  for  sheep  stealing,  £6,  &c. 

99  Presentment  that  there  is  on  ancient  highway  in  the  parish  of  Shittlington, 
CO.  Bedford,  which  leads  and  extends  eastwards  from  Fancome  Brooke 
to  the  ])arish  of  Pirton,  co.  Hertford,  and  that  such  highway  as  lies  in 
the  i)apish  of  Shittlington  in  several  parts  thereof  is  out  of  repair. 
(See  also  jS"o.  7.) 

1766. 

6  Writ  reciting  a  presentment  by  Charles  Ventris  Field,  Esq.,  J. P., 
that  there  is  in  the  parish  of  Chiphill  an  ancient  and  common  highway 
which  leads  and  extends  from  the  parish  of  Campton  through  Ijeadlow 
and  Clophill  to  the  parish  of  Maulden,  and  that  a  certain  part  thereof, 
lying  within  the  parish  of  (Jloi)hill,  which  leads  from  a  gate  called 
Beatllow  Common  Cate  otherwise  Campton  Common  Gate  by  l>eadlow 
farmlMiusfs  througli  lieadlnw  Lane,  across  Church  Field  and  along 
Clophill  town  as  far  as  the  Fiyimj  Jlui'ac:  alehouse,  containing  in  length 


89 

at  least  two  miles  and  in  breaiUh  twelve  yards,  is  out  of  repair. 
Whereupon  at  the  general  quarter  sessions  hehl  on  16th  July,  1766,  a 
fine  of  £50  was  levied  on  tlic  inliahitants  of  llie  [larisli  of  Ch'phill. 

The  sheriff  is  ordered  to  summon   the  said  iidialiitants   to    appear 
and  shew  cause  why  the  said  £50  should  nut  be  jiiiid. 

23rd  June.      Recognizance  of  Anthony  Smith,  of  Anipthill,  blacksmith,    26 
to  cause  his  servant  Tiiomas  Smith  to  appear  to  answer  the  complaint 
of  William  Fisher,  of  Millbrook,   warrener,  for  chasing  coneys  on   his 
warren. 

26th    July.      Recognizance    for    the    appearance  of  Thomas    Barnes,    of   ^^  ^^^'•^  ''O 
Harrohl,  officer  of  excise,  to  answer  the  complaint  of  the  Kev.   George 
Story,  of  Ilarrold,  for  assault. 

7th  January.     Certificate  by  the  minister,   churchwardens,  and  overseers    38 
of  the  poor  of  Hocklitfe,  recommending  Michael  Read  to  be  licensed  as 
a  badger  or  dealer  in  corn. 

12th  July.     Certificate  by  the  minister,  churchwardens,   and  overseers  of   42 
the  poor  of  P^ggington,  in   the  parish  of  Leighton  Buzzard,  recommend- 
ing John  Eliingham,  of  Clipson,  to  be  licensed  as  a  badger  or  dealer  in 
corn. 


12th  July.     Like  recommendation  of  Robert  Cooper,  of  Clipson. 


43 


14th  July.     Certificate  of  the  marriage  of  William  Liming,  of  Thornhaugh,    46 
CO.    Northampton,    and    Esther    Hocker,   of    Godmanchester,  ou  20th 
January,  1760. 

Presentment  that  there  is  an  ancient  highway  leading  from  the  parish  of   84 
Thurleigh  to  the  town  of  Beilford,  and  that  several  parts  thereof  called 
Copplow  Lane  lying  in  the  parish  of  Bletsoe,  containing  20  perches  in 
length  and  14  feet  in  breadth  are  in  decay,  and  that  the  inhabitants  of 
the  parish  of  Bletsoe  ouglit  to  repair  the  same. 

Indictment  of  John   Wooland,   labourer,   constable   of  Aspley  Guise,  for   87 
apprehending  Sarah  Foster,  a  vagrant,  and,  instead  of  taking  her  before 
a  justice  of  the  })eace  as  he  should  have  done,  carrying  her  to  the  parisb 
of  Wavendon,  co.  Buckingham,  and  leaving  her,   where,   had   she   not 
been  relieved  by  the  charity  of  the  inhabitants,  she  would  have  died. 

Indictment  of  Thomas  Billington,  of  Aspley  Guise,  labourer,  for  poaching   89 
in  a  piuk  at  Potsgrove,  bek)nging  to  the  Duke  of   Beilfonl,   where  deer 
and  hares  are  kept. 

1767. 

23rd  June.      Recognizance  for   tlio   appenrance   of  Timothy    Deacon,    of   29 
Kversholt,  dealer,  t(j  answer  for  assaulting  William  Suninierfield. 


40 

30  13th  July.  Recognizance  for  the  appearance  of  Francis  Wheeler  and 
Robert  Clerk,  of  Flitton,  yeomen,  to  give  evidence  against  John  Ikilley, 
of  Little  Shefford,  labourer,  charged  with  assaulting  John  Wright, 
constable  of  Flitton. 

32  28th  N'ovember.  Recognizance  for  the  appearance  of  William  Lugsden, 
of  Little  Stoughton,  yeoman,  to  prosecute  William  Hayes,  of  Little 
Stoughton,  labourer,  charged  with  stealing  a  quantity  of  clothes. 

53  Presentment  as  to  the  repair  of  a  highway  from  Eaton  Socon  to  Bolnhurst 
(document  very  faded). 


1768. 

5  Whereas  it  appeared  to  the  trustees  of  Puddle  Hill  toll-gate  at  their 
meeting  on  Wednesday,  11th  May,  that  it  is  impracticable  for  wagons 
(with  the  weights  of  the  same  respectively  allowed  by  Act  of  Parliament) 
to  be  drawn  up  Puddle  Hill  (the  length  thereof  being  102  poles  one 
foot  and  a  half,  and  bounded  by  a  post  at  each  end)  by  the  number  of 
horses  by  the  said  Act  allowed  ;  the  trustees  theref(jre  order  that 
wagons  with  wheels  nine  inches  broad  may  be  drawn  up  the  said  hill 
with  any  number  of  horses  not  exceeding  ten,  and  wagons  of  less 
breadth  with  any  number  of  horses  not  exceeding  six. 

27  3rd  August.      Recognizance  for  the  appearance  of  William   Khodes,  of 

Hockliffe,  to  answer  for  wilfully  driving  against  and  overturning  a 
post-chaise,  wherein  William  and  John  Addington,  esquires,  were 
travelling. 

28  1st  September.     Recognizance  for  the  appearance  of  Joseph  Iredale,  of 

Dunstaltle,  baker,  to  prosecute  an  a])peal  against  a  conviction  for 
selling  sixpenny  loaves  not  made  according  to  the  Act  of  Parliament. 

64    Indictment  of  William  Fennel,  of  Thurleigh,  labourer,  for  stealing  a  pair 
of  shears,  value  lOd. 


1769. 

28  6th  September.  Recognizance  for  the  appearance  of  Abraham  Lahair, 
overseer  of  the  poor  of  the  parish  of  Sharnbrook,  to  prosecute  William 
Oldham,  for  deserting  his  family  a  third  time  and  leaving  them 
chargeable  to  parish. 

32  31st  October.  Recognizance  for  the  appearance  of  Samuel  Taylor,  of 
Kempston,  labourer,  to  prosecute  Kleanor  Saunders,  of  Kempston,  for 
stealing  a  brass  saucepan. 

43  Indictment  of  Joseph  Dockree,  of  Hockliffe,  labourer,  for  stealing  a  peck 
of  beans,  value  9(1.,  the  goods  of  Thomas  Walker,  clerk.  "  Sentenced 
to  be  publicly  whipped  next  Saturday." 


41 


1770. 


16th  November.     Recognizance  for  the  appearance  of  Richard  Crokey,  of  7 
Hockliffe,    yeoman,    and    for  his    keeping  the   peace   towards   Robert 
Osborn,  of  Hocklitf,  innholder. 

Indictment  of  Sarah  Paternoster,  of  Pullox  Hill,  for  stealing  two  linen   16 
shirt  sleeves  and  one  tallow  candle. 


1771. 

27th  April.     Recognizance  for  the  appearance  of  Thomas  Pinckard,  of  31 
Westoning,    butcher,    to    give    evidence    against    Matthew    Rolfe,    of 
Westoning  Wood  End,  and  Thomas  White   and   John   Barton  of  the 
same,  charged  with  suffering  William  King,  of  Westoning  Wood  End, 
to  escape  from  their  custody. 

4th  May.     Recognizance    for  the   appearance   of   Frances   Durrant,    of   36 
Leighton,  spinster,  to  give  evidence  against  James  Hart  and  Edward 
White,  charged  with  feloniously  taking  fish  the  goods  of  Sir  Richard 
Aston.     (See  also  No.  47). 

20th  May.  Recognizance  for  the  appearance  of  William  Freeman,  of  40 
Harold,  labourer,  and  Thomas  Harrison  of  the  same,  mason,  to  prosecute 
Thomas  Knight,  of  Harold,  farmer,  for  refusing  to  pay  the  demand  of 
the  said  William  Freeman  for  having  impounded  a  cow,  the  property 
of  John  Knight,  son  of  the  said  Thomas  Knight,  and  for  breaking 
open  the  pound  at  Harold  and  rescuing  the  said  cow. 

2nd  November.     Recognizance  for  the  appearance  of  Stephen  Wainwright,    52 
of  St.  Mary's,  Bedford,  tanner,  to  answer  for  feloniously  taking  away  a 
parcel  of  coals  from  the  coal  wharf  of  William  Flood,  in  the  parish  of 
St.  Mary's,  aforesaid. 

12th  November.     Recognizance  for  the  appearance  of  Jonathan   Smith,    55 
of  Ampthill,  journeyman  blacksmith,  to  give  evidence  against  William 
Crawley,  of  Ampthill,  labourer,  charged  with  stealing   one   plain  shoe 
and  a  double  channel  pump,  the  goods  of  the  said  Thomas  Smith. 

Indictment  of  Edward  White,  of  Leigliton  Buzzard,  labourer,  for  stealing   69 
"six  brace  of  fish  called  pearch,"  the  goods  of  Sir  Richard  Aston,   kt., 
at  Leighton  Buzzard  (no  bill).     (See  also  36  above  and  47). 

Indictment  of  James  Frame,  of  Dunstable,  for  stealing  brass  and  copper  70 
clippings  of  the  value  of  lOd.      "Ordered  to  be  whipped  from  one  end 
of  the  town  to  the  other  of  Dunstable,  between  the  hours  of  eleven  and 
twelve  in  the  morning  of  Wednesday  next," 

Indictment  of  John  Blowes,  of  Biggleswade,  for  allowing  disorder  in  his   71 
alehouse. 

Indictment  of  the  constable  of  Westoning,  for  permitting  AVilliam  King  74 
to  escape  from  his  custody. 


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1772. 

36  10th  June.  Recognizance  for  the  appearance  of  WilHam  Hockk^y,  of 
Oakley,  labourer,  to  answer  for  assaulting  Thomas  Dunniore  in  the 
common  field  of  the  parish  of  Oakley. 

39  19th  June.  Recognizance  for  the  appearance  of  Charles  Barnett,  of 
Stratton,  Esq.,  to  prosecute  Sarah  Francklin  for  making  a  riot  and 
disturbance  in  his  house  under  pretence  of  a  message  from  a  magistrate, 
and  William  Francklin,  of  Eyeworth,  labourer,  for  assisting  the  said 
Sarah. 


48  29th  September.  Recognizance  for  the  appearance  of  Thomas  Marshall, 
of  iSTorth  Crawley,  co.  Buckingham,  cordwainer,  one  of  the  constables 
of  the  said  parish,  to  prosecute  William  Burgess  apprehended  in  the 
parish  of  Lidlington,  co.  Bedford,  as  a  cheat  for  that  he  by  false 
pretences  extorted  money  from  several  constables  in  the  counties  of 
Bedford  and  Buckingham,  insisting  that  he  was  authorized  by  some  of 
the  justices  of  the  peace  for  the  county  of  Bedford  to  demand  relief  of 
the  said  constables. 

81  Presentment  that  there  is  an  ancient  highway  leading  from  the  town  of 
Woburn  to  the  town  of  Ampthill,  and  that  a  certain  part  thereof  being 
and  beginning  at  the  end  of  the  town  of  Kidgemont  lying  towards  the 
south  west  and  going  through  and  along  the  town  of  Ridgemont  to  the 
north  east  end  thereof  lying  in  the  parish  of  Ridgemont ;  and  also 
another  part  of  the  said  highway  leading  from  Woburn  to  Ami)thill 
being  and  next  adjoining  to  and  extending  the  length  of  a  close  called 
Willowes  or  Double  Hedges  lying  in  the  parish  of  Ridgemont  are  in 
decay,  and  that  the  inhabitants  of  the  parish  of  Ridgemont  ought  to 
to  repair  the  same. 

83  Presentment  that  there  is  an  ancient  highway  leading  from  the  town  of 
riitton  to  the  town  of  Westoning,  and  that  a  certain  part  thereof 
called  Greenfield  Green  and  Greenfield  Street  lying  and  being  in 
common  between  the  parishes  of  Pulloxhill  and  Flitton,  extending 
from  the  dwelling  house  late  of  Samuel  Paine,  deceased,  and  now  of 
Thomas  Wildman,  bricklayer,  to  the  dwelling  house  of  Arthur 
Ellingham,  farmer,  containing  in  length  90  poles  and  2  feet  and  in 
breadth  about  40  feet,  is  in  decay,  and  that  the  inhabitants  of  the 
parishes  of  Flitton  and  Pulloxhill  ought  to  repair  the  same. 


1773- 

6  21st  April.  Warrant  for  the  arrest  of  John  Perry  who  ])roke  out  of  the 
house  of  correction  at  Bedford,  where  he  was  comniitted  for  taking 
green  sallows  from  ]Milton  Wood  and  refusing  to  pay  40s.  for  that  his 
first  offence,  and  was  ordered  to  be  once  whii)ped. 


43 

26tli  April.  Warrant  for  the  arrest  of  William  Messenger  and  John  7 
Messeiij^er,  of  Brickhill,  for  breaking  out  of  the  said  house  of  correction 
to  which  they  were  coniiiiited  (for  stealing  sallow  rods  out  of  j\Iilton 
Wood,  that  being  there  second  offence  and  being  unable  to  pay  the  fine 
appointed  by  the  Act  of  Parliament)  for  three  months  and  ordered  to 
be  whipped  once  in  every  of  the  said  three  months. 

8th  February.  Recognizance  for  the  appearance  of  William  Speechly  28 
of  the  parish  of  St.  Paul,  Bedford,  wheelwright,  to  prosecute  Samuel 
Barker  of  St.  Paul's  aforesaid,  butcher,  for  riding  full  speed  in  the 
common  street  in  St.  Paul's  aforesaid  and  throwing  down  under  his 
horse's  feet  John  Speechley,  a  child  between  six  and  seven  years  of 
age,  son  of  the  said  William  Speechley,  whereby  the  said  child's  thigh 
was  fractured  and  he  was  otherwise  greatly  hurt.  Endorsed  : 
"  Discharged  ;  the  parties  agreeing." 

10th  April.     Recognizance  for  the  appearance  of  Thomas  Green,  one  of  35 

the  constables  of  Ampthill,  to  give  evidence  against  William  Worsley, 
of  Ampthill,  who  made  a  disturbance  in  the  public  street  and  abusing 
and  striking  the  said  constable  in  the  execution  of  his  office. 

7th  June.  Recognizance  for  the  appearance  of  Isaac  Jones,  a  "  fifer  "  in  41 
the  Bedfordshire  Militia,  his  sureties  being  William  Jones  and  William 
Moll,  sergeants  in  the  said  Militia,  to  answer  for  climbing  up  to  the 
chamber  window  of  William  Willis  of  the  parish  of  St.  Paul,  Bedford, 
victualler,  about  12  o'clock  at  night  and  thereby  greatly  terrifying  and 
alarming  the  said  William  Willis.  Endorsed :  "  Ordered  to  be 
discharged,  the  parties  appearing  in  court  and  agreeing." 

12th   August.      Recognizance   for   the   appearance   of  Sarah   Prior,    to   4.3 
prosecute  Thomas  Watts,  of  Kempston,  labourer,   who  attempted  to 
ravish  her  in  the  common  field  in  the  said  parish  of  Kempston. 

14th  September.     Recognizance  for  the  appearance  of  William  Gordon,    48 
of  Dunstable,  to  prosecute  John  Miles,  of  the  11th  Regiment  of  Foot, 
for  stealing  three  shirts,  &c. 

Indictment  of  James  Burridge,  of  Northill,   for  shooting   with   a  gun  at   87 
John  Richardson  and  destroying  the  sight  of  his  right  eye. 

Indictment  of  James  Veale,  of  St.  Paul's,  Bedford,  for  assaulting  William    88 
Smith,  gamekeeper  of  John   Denis,   Esq.,   in  a  meadow    called  Ham 
Meadow,    in    the    manor    of    the  said   John  Denis   in  the   parish    of 
Kempston. 

Indictment  of  Benjamin  Burgess,  of  Cople,  labourer,  for  fraudulently  91 
obtaining  nmney  of  various  constables  by  shewing  them  the  following 
words  and  figures  "September  25,  1772.  To  relieve  the  same° 
Signed  at  Royaton,  E.  Bowcher,  Herts.,"  written  in  the  margin  of  a 
warrant  for  the  arrest  of  John  Haines,  a  woolcomber,  accused  by  the 
said  Benjamin  Burgess  of  stealing  certain  goods  and  money  belonging 
to  the  said  Benjamin  ;  whereas  there  was  no  such  person  as  E.  Bowcher, 
Herts.  "  Sentenced  to  be  imprisoned  for  a  fortnight  and  then  publicly 
whipt  at  the  markett  cross,  and  discharged  the  last  Saturday  of  the 
said  time." 


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1775- 

2  20th  Marcli.  Warrant  to  the  constable  of  the  parish  of  Woburn  to 
convey  John  Eotsworth  and  Thomas  Green  convicted  of  killing  a  hare 
in  Woburn  Park,  to  the  house  of  correction  where  they  are  to  remain 
for  three  calendar  months. 

20  4th  October.  Order  at  quarter  sessions  that  the  surveyors  of  the 
highways  of  the  hamlet  of  Kempton  Box  End,  in  the  hundred  of 
Eedburnstoke,  may  levy  a  rate  not  exceeding  three  pence  in  the  pound 
on  the  occupiers  of  lands,  tenements,  woods,  tithes,  and  hereditaments 
within  the  said  hamlet  towards  the  repair  of  the  highways,  causeways, 
streets,  pavements,  and  bridges. 

30   Subpoena  directed  to to  attend  at  the  next  sessions  of  the  peace 

to  give  evidence  against  Ashley  Palmer  and  John  Francklin,  Esquires, 
charged  with  breaking  down  certain  posts  and  rails  in  the  parish  of 
Temsford,  the  property  of  the  trustees  appointed  by  several  Acts  of 
Parliament,  for  amending  and  repairing  a  certain  turnpike  road  leading 
through  the  parish  of  Temsford. 

51  Michaelmas  sessions,  1775.  Gaol  calendar : — John  Cox,  committed 
7th  July,  for  fishing  in  the  water  of  the  Earl  of  Bute. 

Thomas  Bayes,  committed  28th  September,   for  three  nipnths  for  having 
snares  to  destroy  game  and  refusing  to  pay  the  penalty  for  the  same. 

84  26th  April.  Depositions  of  Elizabeth  Rogers,  wife  of  Benjamin  Rogers, 
of  Wyboston,  innkeeper  : — That  Henry  Hayes  came  to  her  husband's 
house  on  the  evening  of  3rd  February  and  had  some  brandy  and  water 
and  other  liquor  and  afterwards  supped;  "and  when  he  had  finished 
"  his  supper  he  threw  the  bones  at  her  and  told  her  that  the  deed  was 
"  to  be  done,  which  this  deponent  apprehends  was  to  murder  her,  and 
"  that  the  lot  fell  upon  him  and  he  would  do  it ;  that  it  should  not  be 
"  long  before  he  would  do  the  jobb,  which  this  deponent  apprehends 
"  was  to  murder  her,  and  desired  her  to  make  her  peace  with  God,  for 
"it  would  be  better  for  her." 

88  20th  February.     Certificate   that  Daniel    Dorson,   alehouse  keeper,  was 

convicted  of  suffering  card  playing  in  his  house,  called  the  Five  Bells, 
at  Riseley,  and  was  fined  40s. 

89  20th  February.     Certificate    that  Thomas   Richards   and   Simon   Fobeck 

were  convicted  of  playing  cards  in  the  house  of  the  said  l)ani(!l  Dorson 
and  were  fined  5s.  each. 

91  &  92  27th  April.  Certificates  that  Richard  TurfllVy,  diaper,  and  Thomas 
llalsfj,  Imshaiidinan,  both  of  Redlourn,  were  convicted  of  attcnij)tiiig 
to  destroy  fish  with  a  net  in  a  river  running  through  the  enclosed 
grounds  of  the  Earl  of  Bute  in  the  parish  of  Luton. 


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12th  June.     Certificate  that  the  Bedfordshire  Militia  was  first  raised  in   95 
1760,  and  was  last  assembled  on  15th  May,    1775,  and  trained  for  28 
days.     It  consisted  of  one  lientenant  colonel,  one  major,   four  captains, 
one    captain-lieutenant,    two  lieutenants,   one  adjutant,    18  sergeants, 
18  corporals,  12  drummers,  and  358  privates. 

7th  July.     Certificate  that  Joseph   Cox  and   Kobert  Perrott,   of  Luton,   96 
were  convicted  of  destroying   fish   with  a  sjjcar   and  snare   in  a  river 
running  through  the    enclosed   grounds   of  the   Earl   of   Bute  in   the 
parish  of  Luton. 

Thomas  Jeffery's  Account  for  repairs  to  Bromham  Bridge.  130 

Account   of  Thomas    Howard,    gaoler  of  the  county  gaol  : — To  moving   135 
Thomas  Lincoln  for  transportation,   6Z.  ;  a  long  brush   for  the  chapel, 
3s.  6d. 

Easter  sessions.     Presentment  that  a  public  bridge  in  the  highway  upon    142 
the  river  Ouse,  in   the  parishes   of  Felmersham   and  Milton   Ernest, 
called  Radwell  bridge,  is  in  decay. 

Returns  of  the  prices  of  wheat  sold  in   the  markets  of  Bedford,  Luton,    167 182 

Leighton  and  Potton. 

1776. 

17th  July.     Order  at  quarter  sessions   reciting   that  Ashley  Palmer,    14 
Esquire,  appealed  against  a  rate  made  for  the  relief  of  the  poor  of  the 
parish  of  Cardington  in  April  last,  on  account  of  his   being  assessed  at 
7s.   7|d.  from  tolls  arising  from  the  sluice  across  the  navigable  river  in 
the  parish  of  Cardington.     The  court  now  states  the  following  case  : — 

That  Ashley  Palmer,  Esquire,  by  virtue  of  letters  patent,  Acts  of  Parliament, 
and  other  legal  conveyances,  is  seized  in  fee  of  the  right  of  navigation 
in  that  part  of  the  river  Ouse  which  lies  between  Erith  in  the  county 
of  Huntingdon  and  the  town  01  Bedford,  and  of  all  the  tolls,  sums  of 
money,  and  advantages  arising  and  becoming  payable  for  the  carriage 
of  coals,  and  all  other  materials  whatsoever,  upon  that  part  of  the 
navigation.  That  this  part  of  the  river  was  made  navigable  for  the 
public  benefit  by  the  undertakers  and  proprietors  from  whom 
Mr.  Palmer  claims  at  a  great  expense,  and  is  still  attended  with 
considerable  charges.  That  by  virtue  of  the  said  letters  patent  and 
Acts  of  Parliament  the  proprietors  of  the  navigation  are  empowered  to 
take  and  receive  certain  tolls  for  the  carriage  of  coals  and  other  goods 
navigated  up  and  down  the  aforesaid  part  of  the  said  river,  and  to 
erect  certain  [sluices]  and  stanches  for  the  better  keeping  up  the  water 
and  carrying  on  the  said  navigation,  and  the  tolls  are  paid  for  passing 
through  every  sluice,  and  at  a  different  rate  for  different  sluices.  That 
several  sluices  have  long  since  been  erected  on  the  said  navigation,  and 
in  particular  one  sluice  across  the  said  river  in  the  parish  of  Cardington 
at  which  the  toll  is  3d.  per  chaldron  or  load  weight. 


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That  Mr.  Palmer  does  not  reside  in  the  parish  of  Cardington,  nor  has  he 
any  person  resident  at  that  sluice  to  receive  tolls,  but  the  tolls  for 
that  sluice  are  received  at  Barton  or  Eaton,  and  the  boatmen  draw  the 
wicket  to  pass.  That  neither  Mr.  Palmer  nor  any  of  the  former 
proprietors  of  the  navigation  were  ever  assessed  to  the  poor  rate  for 
this  sluice  or  the  tolls  or  profits,  although  it  has  been  navigable  and 
the  tolls  have  been  received  for  upwards  of  100  years,  but  they  have 
been  for  many  years  assessed  to  Cardington  land  tax  and  paid  the  full 
annual  sums,  viz.,  5/.  138.  6d.  when  the  land  tax  was  4s.  in  the  pound, 
and  3Z.  13s.  4d.  when  3s.  in  the  pound,  as  ajjpears  from  the  assessments. 
That  the  parish  of  Cardington  have  lately  assessed  Mr.  Palmer  to  the 
poors  rate  for  the  said  sluice  in  the  sum  of  7s.  7^d.,  being  a  rate  at  3d. 
in  the  pound. 

37  Easter  sessions.  Gaol  calendar: — George  Buzby,  committed  22nd  March 
for  refusing  to  indemnify  the  parish  of  Bolnhurst  for  a  bastard  child, 

Note. — The  above  John  Buzby  made  his  escape  on  the  night  of  the  14th  of 
April  by  forcing  the  door  of  his  prison  and  getting  over  the  prison 
wall. 

82  Certificate  of  the  conviction  of  Elizabeth  Watts,  widow,  and  Ann  Wright, 
ainglewoman,  for  delivering  to  Jacob  Lawrence,  of  Shefford,  agent  for 
Mr.  Stephen  Raymond,  of  Potton,  wool-comber,  a  pound  or  parcel  of 
yarn  or  jersey,  reeled  short.  This  being  their  first  offence,  they  were 
fined  5s.  each. 

129  Account  of  Thomas  Howard,  gaoler  of  the  county  gaol : 

To  whipping  Ann  Atkins  ;  to  whipping  Jonathan  Butler  publicly  at  the 
Market  Cross,  in  Bedford,  &c. 

130  Account  of  Stephen  Hart  for  work  done   at   the  county   bridge   at  Great 

Barford. 

147    Account  for  rei)airs  done  to  Broniham  bridge. 

151 170    Returns  of  the  prices  of  corn   sold   in    the   markets   of   Bedford,  Luton, 

Leighton  and  Potton. 

171  Presentment  that  there  is  an  ancient  highway  leading  from  the  parish  of 
Canipton  through  Beadlow  and  Clophill  to  the  ])arish  of  Maulden  in 
the  county  of  Bedford,  and  that  a  certain  part  thereof  situate  in  the 
l)arisli  of  Clophill  which  leads  from  a  gate  commonly  called  Beadlow 
Common  Gate,  otherwise  Canipton  Common  Gate,  by  Beadlow  farm- 
houses, tlirough  Beadlow  Lane,  across  Church  Field,  and  along  Clophill 
Town  as  far  as  the  Flying  Horse  alehouse,  containing  in  length  at  least 
two  miles  and  in  breadth  I'i  yards,  is  in  decay. 

At  the  same  court  the  justices  imposed  a  fine  of  50/.  on  the  inliabitants  of 
the  parish  of  Clophill  if  the  said  highway  was  not  repaired  before 
5th  October  following. 


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1777- 

r2th  March.  Award  by  Thoswihan  Brandreth,  Esi^uire,  and  the  Rev.  2 
John  jNIorris,  justices  of  the  peace,  that  upon  view  they  have  found 
that  a  certain  part  of  the  footway  leading  from  the  village  of  Houghton 
Regis,  to  the  town  of  Dunstable,  and  beginning  at  Mill  Hill  in  the 
parish  of  Houghton  Regis,  and  passing  through  the  grounds  of  John 
Miller,  the  younger,  Esq.,  James  Oliver,  John  Stokes,  and  IMark  West, 
in  the  parish  of  Dunstable,  for  the  length  of  192  poles,  or  thereabouts, 
and  particularly  described  in  the  plan  annexed,  may  be  diverted  and 
turned  so  as  to  make  the  same  more  commodious  to  the  public  ;  and 
having  viewed  a  course  proposed  for  the  footway  in  lieu  thereof, 
passing  through  the  grounds  of  the  said  John  Miller,  described  in  the 
plan  annexed,  and  having  received  evidence  of  his  consent  thereto, 
they  award  that  the  said  old  footway  be  diverted  and  turned  through 
the  grounds  of  the  said  John  i\riller  into  the  course  set  out  for  the 
same,  as  appears  in  the  plan  annexed. 

Plan  annexed. 

4th  April.     Certificate  that  the  said  new  footway  is   in   sufficient  repair 
and  condition  to  accommodate  the  public. 

Easter  sessions.     Gaol  calendar  :— Charles   Seignor,    capitally   convicted    43 
in  March  last,  but  since  reprieved,   for  two  years'  hard   labour  on  the 
river  Thames. 

Gaol  calendar: — Sergeant  Harris,  committed  for  destroying  fish  in  the   46 
waters  of  the  Earl  of  Bute,  at  Luton  ;  to  remain  three  months  in  prison 
unless  he  pay  a  penalty  of  5/. 

Gaol  calendar: — John  Keatch  remains   until   an   order  be   sent   for  his   47 
removal  to  the  river  Thames. 

10th  June.     Certificate  that  the  Bedfordshire  Militia   were  assembled  on    88 
13th  INIay  and  exercised  for  28  days,  and  consisted  of  one  lieutenant 
colonel,  one  major,  four  captains,  one  captain-lieutenanf,  two  lieutenants 
one    adjutant,    18    sergeants,    18   corporals,    12    drummers,    and    359 
privates. 

23rd  September.  Certificate  that  the  new  highway  and  footpath  lyin"  90 
between  and  leading  from  a  certain  place  called  AVarren  Gate  to 
Southill  Church  Street,  in  the  hundred  of  AVixamtree,  running  through 
the  lands  of  Viscount  Torrington,  for  the  length  of  1826  yards,  or 
thereabouts  (including  therein  a  common  balk),  is  completed,  and  put 
into  good  condition  and  repair,  and  therefore  the  old  highway  lyinc 
between  and  leading  from  Warren  Gate  to  Southill  Church  Street 
aforesaid  for  the  length  of  1760  yards,  or  thereabouts,  and  a  certain 
part  of  the  old  footpath  in  the  said  ])arish  leading  from  Gastlin'^'s 
Warren  Stile  to  a  certain  place  called  Bird  Lime  Traps  for  the  length 


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of  820  yards,  or  thereabouts,  and  also  a  certain  part  of  another  old 
footpath  in  tlie  same  parish,  lying  between  a  certain  place  called 
Ireland  and  Sand  Hill  Bottom  of  the  length  of  726  yards,  or 
thereabouts,  may  be  stopped  up  by  Viscount  Torrington,  and  held  by 
him,  his  heirs,  and  assigns,  in  lieu  of  the  new  roads  and  footpaths 
formed  in  and  running  through  his  lands. 

110  Petition  of  John  Taylor,   of  Clerkenwell,   to   the  justices  of  the  peace. 

Shews  that  petitioner's  son,  of  the  age  of  13,  was  apprenticed  to 
Robert  Kirby,  of  Luton,  surgeon,  who  undertook  to  teach  him  Latin, 
which  he  has  neglected  to  do.  The  said  Robert  now  intends  to  apply 
to  the  justices  to  discharge  the  said  George  Taylor,  who  has  served 
three  years  of  his  time,  for  absenting  himself  without  leave. 

Petitioner  paid  100/.  on  apprenticing  his  son,  and  now  prays  that  if 
the  justices  discharge  him  they  will  allow  part  of  that  sum  to  petitioner, 
and  that  they  will  minutely  inquire  into  the  conduct  of  the  said 
Robert  Kirby,  who,  petitioner  is  informed,  is  a  man  of  a  cruel  arbitrary 
disposition,  and  never  had  an  apprentice  who  served  out  his  time  with 
him. 

No.  152  is  a  Receipt  by  John  Taylor,  of  Rosamond  Street,  Clerkenwell, 
for  20Z.,  ordered  by  the  court  to  be  repaid  to  him  by  Robert  Kirby. 
George  Taylor,  the  son,  was  ordered  to  be  discharged  from  his 
apprenticeship, 

111  Certificate  that  the  Bedfordshire  Militia  were  assembled  on  6th  October 

and  trained  for  28  days.  They  consisted  of  one  lieutenant-colonel, 
one  major,  four  captains,  one  captain-lieutenant,  two  lieutenants,  one 
adjutant,  18  sergeants,  18  corporals,  12  drummers,  and  345  privates. 

119  Matthew  Barker's  Bill  for  burying  Thomas  King,  a  vagrant  : — Horse  hire 
to  Ampthill  for  the  coroner,  3s.  ;  fur  tiannel  and  cloth  tape  by  order  of 
the  doctor,  3s.  ;  for  beer  for  the  jury  and  laying  him  out,  12s.  6d.  ;  a 
pair  of  stockings  by  order  of  the  doctor.  Is.  2d.,  &c, 

137  Account  of  Thomas  Howard,  gaoler  of  the  county  gaol: — To  branding 
Mary  Partridge  in  the  hand,  5s.,  &c, 

153—164   Returns  of  the  prices  of  corn. 

165  13th  January.  Presentment  of  William  Thomas,  of  Bedford,  innkeeper, 
for  not  scouring  a  ditch  called  Castle  Ditch,  in  the  parish  of  St.  Paul, 
Bedford. 


1778- 

29  Gaol  Calendar: — William  Ranee,  John  Webb,  John  Crane,  and  Jasper 
Cowdell,  remain  for  hard  labour  on  the  Thames. 

32  Michaelmas  sessions.  Gaol  calendar: — Frances  Deerman,  committed 
30th  July,  convicted  of  grand  larcency,  and  to  be  branded  in  the  left 
liand. 


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Account  of  Thomas  Howard,  gaoler  of  the  county  gaol  : — To  removing  to  the   135 
Thames  for  hard  labour,  William  Ranee,  John  Webb,  Jasper  Cowdell, 
and  John  Kance,  16/.     To  whipping  publicly  William  Ley,  5s.  6d.,  &c. 

Returns  of  the  prices  of  corn.  151 — 172 

Indictment  of  Thomas  Goosey,  of  the  hamlet  of  Humberstone,  in  the  town  185 
of  Market  Street  and  parish  of  Studham,  victualler,  and  one  of  the 
overseers  of  the  poor  of  the  said  hamlet,  for  bringing  without  legal 
warrant,  Humphrey  Spry,  coachman  (the  said  Humphrey  having 
dislocated  his  hip,  and  then  being  poor  and  impotent  and  unable  to 
maintain  himself),  from  the  parish  of  Flamstead  in  the  county  of 
Hertford  to  the  parish  of  Dunstable  to  be  maintained  by  the 
inhabitants,  the  said  Humphrey  having  no  legal  settlement  there. 


1779. 

Gaol  calendar: — William  Cook,  otherwise  Turf,   committed  as  a  rogue   28 
and  vagabond,  "  and  as  a  proper  person  to  serve  his  Majesty  under  the 
late  Act  of  impressing  as  a  soldier  or  a  seaman ;"  for  deserting  from 
the  Hertfordshire  Militia  and  for  snaring  a  hare. 

Gaol  calendar: — John   Brinklayer,   a  convict,  remains  for  an  order  of   30 
removal  to  the  river  Thames,  for  three  years'  with  hard  labour. 

12th  and  13th  January.     Certificates  of  the  conviction  of  Ann  Garter,  of   90 — 93 
Eaton  Socon,  Elizabeth  Robinson,  of  Tempsford,  Sarah  Cranfield  and 
Anne  Simpson,  of  Eaton  Socon,  of  reeling  short  yarn. 

19th  April.     Certificate  of  the  conviction  of  Felix  Cocke,  yeoman,  for   101 
swearing  a  profane  oath. 

8th  July.     Certificate  of  the  conviction  of  Samuel  Rose,  for  selling  a  half-   102 
peck  loaf  wanting  eight  ounces ;  fined  40s. 

Account  of  Thomas  Howard,  gaoler  of  the  county  gaol  : — To  whipping   127 
privately  Thomas  Robinson,  5s.,  &c. 

July  27th.     Gaoler's  account.     Removing  Samuel  Dealley  and  Thomas    153 
Wallis   to   Leighton  to   be   pilloried  ;   guard,   chair,    and  expenses,  21. 
Taking  a  plan  of  the  gaol  to  send  to  London  to  the  Sick  and  Wounded 
Office,'  7s.  6d. 

3rd  June.  Account  of  work  done  at  the  House  of  correction.  Repairing  154 
and  oiling  the  locks  of  the  wards,  3s.  6d.  Repairing  the  locks  and 
bolts  of  the  outside  gates,  2s.  New  hoop  for  a  "  beetle,"  a  wooden 
hammer  f(;r  driving  in  stakes,  and  lining  and  shutting  the  other  hoop 
and  putting  in  a  "  steall,"  2s.  3d.  For  a  new  link  and  repairing  the 
others.  Is.  6d.  Repairing  a  leg-lock,  8d.  Oiling  the  lock  and  bolts  of 
the  dwelling  house,  Is.,  &c. 


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156  Note  that  the  ground  before  the  Sessions  House  measures  "  near  11  square 
poles  "  ;  51.  5s.  is  allowed  to  Mr.  Kichard  Leach,  surveyor  of  St.  Paul's, 
for  gravelling  this. 

158 — 173    Returns  of  the  prices  of  corn. 

183  Indictment  of  Philip  Perkins,  publican,  and  others,  for  riotously 
assembling  at  Greenfield,  in  the  parish  of  Pulloxhill,  about  4  o'clock  in 
the  afternoon  during  divine  service  and  for  assault. 

1780. 

11  22nd  September.  Notice  by  William  Harrison,  surveyor,  left  at 
Mr.  Hawkin's  farm  at  Higham,  to  come  with  his  cart  or  carts  to  the 
gravel  pits  in  Silsoe  Fields,  on  26th  September,  to  do  his  duty  on  the 
turnpike  road  in  Higham  Gobion. 

15  19th  November.  Notice  of  appeal  by  John  Hawkins  against  a  conviction 
by  the  Rev.  Hadley  Cox  for  neglecting  to  do  his  duty  in  repairing  the 
turnpike  road  in  the  parish  of  Higham  Gobion  within  the  Luton 
district  :  "  because  no  legal  appointment  was  made  to  be  done  by  him 
upon  the  said  road  ;  "  he  was  not  summoned  to  attend  at  the  time  he  was 
convicted  ;  the  duty  alleged  to  be  charged  upon  and  required  to  be 
done  by  him  was  more  than  the  proper  proportion  of  his  duty  to  be 
done  thereon  and  that  he  is  convicted  in  a  greater  penalty  than  is 
warranted  by  the  statute. 

29  Qaol  calendar,   Richard    Jefford,  committed    on   suspicion  of  stealing  a 

chest  of  tea,  value  40/.,  out  of  a  wagon,  the  property  of  Charles 
Whittingham,  of  Dunstable. 

30  Qaol  calendar,  Thomas  Dealby,  committed  for  a  misdemeanour  ;  fined 

5s.,  and  to  remain  in  gaol  for  12  months  from  the  day  of  his  standing 
in  the  pillory,  and  to  find  security  for  his  good  behaviour  for  three 
years.  Thomas  Collins  to  remain  for  want  of  sureties  for  harbouring 
and  assisting  one  sergeant  Taylor  knowing  he  had  stolen  a  bag  of  letters 
sent  by  the  post. 

32  Midsummer  sessions,  Sarah  Dearman,  attainted  at  the  last  sessions  of 
felony  and  burglary  for  which  she  was  liable  to  suffer  death,  but  she 
was  reprieved  on  comlition  that  she  be  imprisoned  and  kept  to  hard 
labour  in  the  house  of  correction  for  18  months. 

William  Bowman,  committed  for  two  months  for  fishing  in  the  enclosed 
waters  of  George  Edwards,  Esquire,  of  Henlow,  and  refusing  to  pay  the 
penalty  of  5?. 

Ann  Griswell  and  Ann  ISIellow,  committed  as  rogues  and  vagabonds,  and 
charged  on  the  complaint  of  Major  Williamson,  of  the  Yorki^hire 
]\Iilitia,  now  on  the  march  to  Biggleswade,  with  being  common 
prostitutes,  wandering  abroad,  infecting  the  said  regiment,  and  not 
giving  a  satisfactory  account  of  themselves.  "  Discharged ;  first 
whipped  and  not  piped." 


Joseph  Byley,  committed  lltli  June  as  a  convict  let  out  of  Newgate  by  the   33 
late  riot. 

Thomas  Collins  remains  for  want  of  sureties  concerning  the  mail  being 
robbed  at  Dunstable. 

Gaol  calendar,  Thomas  Southam  and  William  Bosworth,  committed  12th  34 
September,  charged  with  feloniously  stopping  and  robbing  George 
Pates  upon  the  highway  in  the  parish  of  Luton  ;  they  stand  further 
charged  with  having  broken  out  of  the  gaol  for  the  county  of  Hertford 
on  5th  September,  the  former  convicted  of  horse  stealing  and  the  other 
of  grand  larceny. 

15th  Decemljer.  Notice  by  the  Rev.  Hadley  Cox,  of  Ampthill,  justice  of  68 
the  peace,  to  the  Rev.  John  Hawkins,  that  he  has  been  fined  15s.  for 
neglecting  to  repair  the  turnpike  road  leading  from  Luton  to  Westwood, 
and  from  Luton  to  St.  Albans,  in  the  parish  of  Higham  Gobion,  viz., 
for  neglecting  to  send  one  cart  with  three  horses  and  two  men  for  a 
day  and  a  half,  being  the  half  of  his  statute  duty  for  1780. 

Returns  of  the  prices  of  corn.  124 — 139 


1781. 

Petition  of  Thomas  Howard,  gaoler  of  the  county  gaol.  Shews  that  90 
William  Pearson  and  James  Prigmore  were  committed  for  debt  to  the 
county  gaol,  and  on  the  night  of  10th  August  last  they  broke  gaol,  at 
which  time  petitioner  was  in  London  with  four  convicts  for  the  river 
Thames  for  hard  labour.  That  next  morning  petitioner's  wife  sent  out 
four  men  in  different  quarters  in  pursuit  of  the  prisoners,  but  to  no 
purpose.  That  petitioner  sent  out  again  several  times  into  ditl'erent 
parts  of  the  fens  and  at  last  retook  the  fugitives  although  at  the 
expense  of  more  than  iOl.  Petitioner  prays  that  as  the  escape  was  not 
owing  to  his  neglect,  but  to  the  weakness  of  the  county  gaol,  he  may 
be  allowed  such  expenses  as  shall  seem  meet.  Allowed  by  the  court 
15  guineas. 

Account  of  moneys  paid  by  the  treasurer  of  the  county  of  Bedford   to  the    122 
treasurer    of   the    town    of  Bedford   from  Michaelmas   sessions,    1780, 
to    Epiphany    sessions,     1781,     to    the    overseers    of   St.    Paul's    and 
St.  Cuthbert's,  for  moneys  paid  by  them  to  the  families  of  substitutes 
servinjf  in  the  Militia. 


Account  for  the  county  gaol,  sessions  house  and  bridewell.     For  a  new    129 
jointed  waist  belt  and  handcuffs  ;  for  holdfasts  for  wall  in  the  dungeon  ; 
for  four  large  cramps  and  four  large  rings  in  the  same  ;  for  four  large 
staples  for  the  men's  dungeon  ;  the  like  and  two  large  rings  for  the 
women's  dungeon ;  for  three  small  padlocks  for  the  waist  belt. 


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137  Account  of  Edward  Jackson.  Amongst  the  items  are  the  follo-vving  : — 
Bleeding  Sarah  Dearman  in  Bedford  gaol.  For  an  anodyne  pill,  a 
styptic  mixture,  styptic  powders,  aperient  bolus,  a  "  terebinthinated  " 
clyster,  a  clyster  pipe,  a  cathartic  powder,  a  deobstruent  draught,  a 
demulcent  mixture,  ingredients  for  a  quart  of  decoction,  and  intros 
powders. 

144  Account  of  Thomas  Partridge,  coroner: — Attending  the  sheriff's  county 

court    at    Biggleswade    to    pronounce   judgment    of   outlawry    against 
Serjeant  Taylor  who  stands  indicted  for  felony,  &c. 

145  Account  of  moneys  paid  to  the  families  of  substitutes  in  the  Militia  from 

various  parishes  from  Easter  to  Midsummer  session,  1781. 

161    Account  for  work  done  to  Barford  bridge. 

163  Account  of  moneys  paid  to  the  families  of  substitutes  in  the  Militia  from 
Midsummer  to  Michaelmas,  1781. 

166  Account  for  work  done  to  the  sessions  house  and  gaol  when  the  Militia 
went  away. 

172  Work  done  at  the  County  gaol: — A  new  spike  for  the  iron  gate,  6d. ;  a 
bolt  for  the  iron  gate  and  oiling  the  bolts  of  the  other  gate,  8d. 

181 — 195   Returns  of  the  prices  of  corn. 

196  Presentment  that  there  is  an  ancient  highway  leading  from  Bedford  to 
Shefford,  and  a  certain  part  thereof  lying  in  the  parish  of  Wilsharnstead, 
beginning  north  opposite  a  farmhouse  in  the  possession  of  William 
Bury,  and  leading  south  through  a  lane  commonly  called  Dark  Lane 
lip  Thody's  hill  to  the  north  end  of  the  pales  of  a  farmhouse  in  the 
possession  of  Joseph  Garrett,  containing  in  length  2046  yards  is  in 
decay,  and  that  the  inhabitants  of  the  parish  of  Wilshanistead  ought  to 
repair  the  same. 


1782. 

32  Easter  sessions.     Gaol  calendar: — James  Albone  and  Stephen  Kussell, 

committed  for  grand  larceny,  and  ordered  to  be  publicly  whipped  and 
to  be  imprisoned  and  kept  to  hard  labour  in  the  house  of  correction 
for  twelve  months. 

33  ^lidsummer  sessions.     Gaol   calendar  : — Samuel  "Wallis,   committed  for 

12  calendar  months  from  the  time  ho  stood  in  the  i)illory,  and  also  to 
find  security  for  his  good  behaviour  for  three  years  after. 

34  Gaol    calendar: — Christopher  Richards,  pardoned   on   condition    of  his 

enlisting  to  serve  the  King  in  the  land  forces  in  Africa  for  live  years. 


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Michaelmas  sessions.     Gaol    calendar  :^ William   Vaughan  was  at  the   35 
last  assizes  attainted  of  stealing  goods,  value  8s.,  from  a  shop,  for  which 
he  was  liable  to  suffer  death,  but  his  Majesty  was  pleased  to  extend 
his  royal  mercy  to  him  on  condition  of  his  being  kept  to  hard  labour 
for  two  years. 

28th  August.     Recognizance  for  the  appearance  of  William  Lugsden,    47 
Joseph  Godliffe,  William  Murfin,  and  John  Cope,  of  Little  Staughton, 
to  abide  the  trial  of  a  suit  preferred  by  the  Rev.   Richard  Leech  of  the 
said  parish  in  a  matter  of  small  tithe  due  to  him. 

2nd  May.  Complaint  of  Richard  Leech,  of  Little  Staughton,  clerk.  58 
That  for  twenty  days  and  upwards  before  the  date  hereof  he  demanded 
of  Joseph  Goodley,  of  Staughton,  yeoman,  the  offerings,  oblations,  and 
obventions,  justly  become  due,  within  two  years  last  past  to  the  value 
of  Is.  lOd.,  but  the  said  Goodley  refuses  to  pay  or  compound  for 
the  same. 

The   like   complaint   against    John    Cope,    John    Murfin,    and   William    59 — 61 
Lugsden. 

12th  June.     Certificates   of  the  conviction  of  Elizabeth   Stretton,   and    68 — 70 
others,  of  Eaton  Socon,  for  reeling  short  yarn  or  jersey. 

2nd  July.     Certificate  of  the  conviction  of  John  Fencham  for  swearing    71 
two  profane  oaths. 

Account    of   Thomas    Howard,    gaoler  : — For    publicly    whipping    James    103 
Albone  and  Stephen  Russell,  10s.   6d.,  &c. 

Midsummer  sessions.     Account  of  moneys  paid   by  the  treasurer  of  the    120 
county  of  Deilfonl  to  the  treasurer  of  the  county  of  Northampton   for 
the  families  of  substitutes  in  the  INIilitia  and  resident  in  the  county  of 
Northampton. 

Returns  of  the  prices  of  corn.  151 1G7 

Presentment  that  there  is  a  common  highway  in  the  parish  of  Tenisford,  168 
leading  to  the  parish  of  JUunhani,  and  a  certain  part  thereof  Ivin;"-  in 
the  parish  of  Temsford,  begiiming  at  a  place  adjoining  to  the  North 
Road  in  the  parish  of  Temsford  and  so  c(nitinued  towards  the  pai'ish 
of  Blunham,  containing  in  length  68  poles  and  in  breadth  60  feet  is  in 
decay,  and  that  the  inhabitants  of  the  parish  of  Temsford  ought  to 
repair  th(i  same. 

•783. 

8th  October.     Order  at  quarter  sessions:— The  keepers  of  the  gaol    14 
and  brideswell  having  complained  that  the  said  prisons  are   very  much 
crowded  with  felons  convicted   at   the  dillcKMit  assizes  still  remainin<>' 
there,  and  the  said  complaint  having  been  proved,  It  is  ordered   that 


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Lord  North,  one  of  the  principal  secretaries  of  state,  be  acquainted 
therewith  in  the  hope  that  some  method  may  be  thought  of  for 
lemoving  the  said  convicts,  and  if  this  be  not  done  the  prisons  will  be 
rendered  unhealthy  and  the  conseipiences  may  be  fatal,  not  only  to  the 
persons  confined  in  the  said  prisons  but  also  to  the  inhabitants  of  the 
town  of  Bedford. 

30  Epiphany    sessions.     Gaol    calendar: — Samuel    Walls,  committed  for  a 

misdemeanour  for  twelve  months  after  standing  in  the  pillory. 

31  Easter    sessions.       Gaol     calendar: — William    Johnson,     of     Houghton 

Conquest,  convicted  of  grand  larceny,  and  was  ordered  to  be  whipped 
till  his  body  was  bloody,  and  to  be  put  to  hard  labour  in  one  of  the 
penitentiary  houses  to  be  erected  for  one  year,  and  in  the  meantime  to 
be  kept  to  hard  labour  in  the  house  of  correction  for  the  county. 

Elizabeth  Spring,  convicted  of  grand  larceny,  and  ordered  to  be  privately 
whipped,  and  to  be  kept  to  hard  labour  in  one  of  the  penitentiaries  to 
be  erected  for  one  year. 

Mary  Waller,  committed  for  short  reeling  of  yarn,  and  refusing  to  pay  the 
penalty  of  5s. 

34  Gaol  calendar  : — Christopher  Eichards,  John  Scarborough  Perry,  William 

Major,  William  Goodman,  and  William  Johnson,  convicts,  ordered  to 
Africa. 

35  Gaol  calendar  :— William  Johnson,  a  convict  for  Africa.     Thomas  Kisbey 

Tvvelvetree,  a  convict  for  America.  Christopher  Richards,  a  convict, 
has  received  the  King's  pardon  on  condition  of  enlisting  to  serve  in 
the  land  forces  in  some  of  the  King's  settlements  in  Africa. 

38  Gaol  calendar : —Christopher  liichards,  convicted  of  privately  stealing 
goods,  value  8s.,  and  sentenced  to  death  but  reprieved  before  the  judge 
left  the  town,  and  pardoned  on  condition  of  his  enlisting  to  serve  in 
the  land  forces  in  Africa  but  no  one  has  offered  to  receive  him. 

77  4th  October.     Certificate  that  that    part  of   the   road   in   the   parish   of 

Eaton  Bray  for  which  the  inhabitants  were  indicted  is  put  in  repair. 

78  8lh    October.       Petition   of    AVilliam  Kay  to    the   justices  of  the  *ijeace. 

Shows  th;it  iK'titioufn-  was  hound  in  \0l.  for  the  appearance  of  William 
Ivay,  a  relation.  The  said  William  Kay  was  a  sailor,  belonging  to  the 
Barffuer  man  of  war,  and  was  committed  to  the  Bedford  gaol  for  a 
misdemeanour.  Petitioner  is  fearful  that  the  said  AVilliam  Kay 
perished  in  the  great  fire  at  Wapping  about  the  latter  end  of  September 
last,  as  he  went  from  his  lodgings  to  assist  and  has  never  since  been 
heard  of.      Petitioner  prays  to  be  relieved  of  his  i-ecognizances. 

79  23nl  October.      Certificate  of  the  conviction  of  Anne  Thorougligood    and 

liebecca  Buriage,  of  Cardington,  of  reeling  short  and  false  a  parcel  of 
yarn  ;  fined  5s.  each. 


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Account  of  Jeremy  Fisli  Palmer,  clerk  of  the  peace.  Writinrj  2G  orders  97 
for  the  different  parishes  to  repay  Mr.  Theed  what  he  [)aiil  to  the 
families  of  substitutes  serving  in  ihc  ]\Iilitia  of  other  counties. 
Writing  twelve  orders  for  the  relief  of  the  families  of  substitutes 
serving  in  the  Bedfordshire  Militia,  and  dwelling  in  the  parishes  of 
St.  Paul  and  St.  Cuthbert,  &c. 

Account  of  moneys  paid  b}^  the  treasurer  of  the  county  of  Bedford  to  the    99 
treasurer  of  the  county  of  Northampton  for  the  families  of  sub.'^titutes 
in  the  Bedfordshire  INIilitia  and  resident  in  the  county  of  Northampton. 

Account   of   Thomas   Howard,    gaoler  : — To    whipping    William    Johnson    lOfi 
])ul»licly,  5s.  6d.      Whi])ping   P]lizabeth   Spring,    Bichard   Cranley,   and 
John  Binian,  1  Gs.  6d.      lUirning  -lohn  Dunham  in  the  liaiul,  5.s.  Gd. 

Account  of  moneys  paid  by  the  treasurer  of  the  county  of  Bedford  to  the    120 
treasurers  of  the  counties  of  Northampton,    Hertford,  and   Middlesex 
for  the  families  of  substitutes  serving  in  the   Bedfordshire  Militia  and 
resident  in  those  counties. 

Returns  of  the  prices  of  corn.  135 — 150 

Presentment  that  there  is  an  ancient  highway  leading  from  the  town  of  1^"^ 
Tring,  in  the  county  of  Hertford,  to  the  market  town  of  Dunstable, 
and  a  certain  part  thereof  lying  in  the  parish  of  Eaton  Bray  beginning 
next  to  a  place  called  Cross  Waters,  in  the  parish  of  Etllesborough,  in 
the  county  of  Buckingham,  and  extending  thence  in  the  parish  of 
Eaton  Bray  to  the  town  of  Dunstable,  containing  in  length  one  mile 
and  in  breadth  30  feet  is  in  decay,  and  that  the  inhabitants  of  Eaton 
Bray  ought  to  rejiair  the  same. 

Presentment  that  there  is  an  ancient  highway  leading  from  the  parish  of  IGO 
Temshn-d  to  the  parish  of  Gamlingay,  in  the  county  of  Cambridge,  and 
a  certain  part  thereof  lying  in  the  parish  of  Temsford  beginning  at  a 
place  called  Lamb  Court  End,  in  the  parish  of  Temsford,  and  extending 
thence  in  the  parish  of  Temsford  towards  Gamlinga}^  containing  in 
length  20  poles  and  in  breadth  60  feet  is  in  decay,  and  that  the 
inhabitants  of  the  parish  of  Temsford  ought  to  repair  the  same. 

31st  October.  Letter  from  Evan  Nepean  to  Jeremy  Fish  Palmer  : — I  am  167 
commanded  by  Lord  North  to  acquaint  you  that  Mr.  Duncan  Campbell 
will  be  directed  to  receive  such  convicts  under  sentence  of  transporta- 
tion to  America  as  may  be  in  Bedford  gaol  and  biidewell,  on  board  one 
of  his  hulks  for  the  present,  and  will  enter  into  the  usual  boiuls  for 
conveying  them  to  the  places  of  their  destination. 


1784. 

Gaol  calendar: — James  Lord,  committed  for  conveying  instruments  into    24 
the  gaol  and  thereby  facilitating  the  escape  of  prisoners. 


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26  Qaol  calendar: — Thomas  Kisbey  Twelvetrec,  a  convict  for  Africa,  who 

broke  fiaol  and  since  retaken,  remains  to  be  tried  for  breaking  gaol. 

27  Michaelmas  sessions.       Qaol  calendar: — Peter  Swanson,  committed  for 

one  month,  "  he  being  saucy  and  impertinent  to  his  master,  Edward 
Peacock,  of  Thurleigh,  and  lay  out  of  nights  and  neglected  his  said 
master's  business." 

105  Account  for  work  done  at  the  gaol  : — To  mending  doors  that  prisoners 
broke  when  they  got  out  of  gaol,  and  painting,  6s. 

124  Account  of  William  Clare  : — To  broth,  &c.,  for  four  prisoners  ill  of  the 
ague  for  some  time,  1/.   4s.   6d. 

126  Smith's  work  done  at  the  gaol : — For  a  new  brand  to  mark  the  prisoners 
with  and  handle.  Is.   6d. 

150  Indictment  of  Thomas  Battams,  of  Shitlington,  labourer.  States  that 
William  Wilshire,  gentlemen,  deputy  steward  of  Richard  Tristram, 
gentleman,  steward  of  Joseph  Musgrave,  lord  of  the  manor  of 
Shitlington,  on  17th  March,  17th  George  III.,  demised  by  copy  of 
court  roll  of  the  said  manor  to  Elizabeth  Cranfield,  of  Shitlington, 
spinster,  a  customary  cottage  or  tenement  and  right  of  pasture  with 
appurtenances  lying  in  Pound  End  within  the  said  manor,  late  in  the 
occuijation  of  George  Lincoln,  to  hold  of  the  lord  of  the  manor  by  the 
rod  at  the  will  of  the  lord  by  copy  of  court  roll  fealty,  suit  of 
court  and  the  yearly  rent  of  2s.  2d.  The  said  rent  being  in  arrear  a 
distraint  was  made,  when  the  said  Thomas  15attams  rescued  the  goods 
and  assaulted  the  Ijailitf. 


152—167    Returns  of  the  prices  of  corn. 


1785. 


52  Easter  sessions.  Qaol  calendar  :  —  P>enjamin  Firr,  convicted  of  grand 
larceny  and  ordered  to  be  publicly  whipped  and  kept  to  hard  labour 
for  six  calendar  months. 

81  27th  August.  Information  of  Ann  Smith,  of  Blunham,  widow.  That 
she  is  a  pauper  of  the  said  parish,  and  on  24th  August  she  was 
gleaning  in  the  common  fields  of  Blunham,  with  Mary  Emery  and 
others.  Whilst  she  and  the  rest  of  the  poor  people  were  gleaning 
after  the  cart  of  jNIatthew  West,  of  Blunham,  farmer,  upon  his  lands 
in  j\Ier  Furlong,  in  Hantield,  in  the  jjarish  of  Blunham,  they  were 
oljliged  to  sit  down  and  leave  oft'  gleaning  on  account  of  a  heavy 
shower  of  rain.  That  during  the  jieriod  as  they  were  lamenting  one  to 
another  that  they  must  go  home  without  their  usual  quantity  of  grain 
or  fdeanin<f,  the  said  Mary  Emery  openly  declared  that  she  would  not 
go  home  without  her  bundle,  and  that  there  was  barley  enough  in  the 
field  lying  upon  the  lands  near  to  them,  and  that  she  would  have  some 
before  she  went  home  and  not  come  for  nothing.  She  then  went  upon 
the  land  of  John  Wilcher,  another  farmer  in  the  said  parish,  and  took 
a  couple  of  lapfuls  in  her  apron  of  loose  or  mowed  barley  and  put  it 


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into  an  open  sack  used  occasionally  for  that  purpose  in  carrying  home 
their  grain.  When  she  was  told  it  was  Master  Wilcher's  barley  she 
returned  for  answer  "Is  it  Wilcher's"  and  said  she  would  make  her 
bundle  somewhere  else  but  never  offered  to  replace  the  barley  and 
took  it  home  with  her.  She  then  went  to  Mr.  West's  land  and  took 
more  barley.  She  appeared  to  this  deponent  to  do  it  in  a  felonious 
and  audacious  manner,  in  defiance  of  justice  and  with  a  wicked  heart 
purposely  and  designedly  to  defraud  the  said  John  Wilcher  of  his 
property  and  not  in  a  wanton,  jocose  manner,  or  what  is  commonly 
called  playing  the  rogue  or  in  fun. 

5th  October.     Information  of  Thomas  Cook  of  Goldington,  yeoman,  for   82 
exercising  the  trade  of  a  shoemaker  without  having  been  apprenticed 
thereto  for  seven  years. 

Account  of  William   Clare: — For  broth,  &c.,  for  four  prisoners  being  ill   no 
with  ague  some  time,  1/.  3s.  6d. 

Account  for  work  done  at  the  County  gaol,  sessions  house  and  bridewell :   m 
—  For  a  pair  of  new  handcufl's  for  the  bridewell,  2s. ;  lined  four  rings 
for  long  links  at  gaol,  Is.  8d. ;  a  key  for  an  iron  run  lock  in  the  jury 
room,  Is.  2d. 

Account  of  John  Howard,  gaoler: — To  attending  the  ventilator,  U  5s.  ;  i24 
for  a  brass  pottage  pot,  19s.  6d.  ;  to  tin  ditto  for  prisoners,  3d. ; 
publicly  whipping  William  Furr,  10s.  6d. ;  nourishment  for  John 
Wynn  whilst  under  condemnation,  and  wine,  &g.,  &c.,  8s.  ;  to  church 
fees  to  the  clerk  of  St.  Paul's  for  John  Wynn,  3s. ;  paid  the  layers  out, 
•is.  ;  paid  the  underbearers,  7s. 

Account  of  John  Howard,  gaoler  : — For  nourishment  such  as  wine  ;  whey,     131 
cordials,  poultices,  &c.,  for  Shilton,  Fraser,   Bird  and  Bunyan,  10s.,  to 
two  gallons  of  vinegar  to  wash  the  wards,  4s. 

Account  of  Jeremy  Fish  Palmer  :— To  writing  13  letters  to  the  justices  to  137 
attend  at  the  next  sessiijus  to  take  into  consideration  the  presentment 
of  the  grand  jury  at  the  last  assizes  respecting  the  building  and 
repairing  of  the  gaol.  Drawing  and  fair  copy  style  of  order  of  sessions 
for  gaoler's  salary  and  for  him  not  to  suffer  tippling  or  gaming  in  the 
gaol.  Writing  letters  relative  to  the  gaol  and  Bridewell  being  crowded 
by  felons  in  hope  that  some  method  might  be  thought  of  for  removinf 
them. 

Thomas  Jeflferey's   Bill  for  repairisig  Bromham  bridge  and  turning  a  new    i  r^Q 
arch. 

15th  March.     Report  of  the  committee  of  magistrates  of  the  counties  of   175 
Chester   and   J>ancaster   appointed   for   taking    into   consideration    the 
present   mode  of  maintaining,  conveying,  and  sliijjping  vagrants  in  the 
said  counties  and  for  reducing  the  expenses  attending  the  same. 


58 

1786. 

27  Epiphany  sessions.  Gaol  calendar :  —Sarah  Matthews  and  Mary 
Naughton,  committed  17th  October,  1785,  on  suspicion  of  wilfully 
setting  fire  to  the  workhouse  at  Maldon. 

29  Epiphany  sessions.  Gaol  calendar :  — John  Warwick,  committed  for 
stealing  turkeys  ;  to  be  imprisoned  for  one  month  and  then  ]jublic]y 
whipped  at  Bedford  and  Ampthill  and  discharged.  Daniel  Roberts, 
for  stealing  a  parcel  of  straw  plait  sentenced  to  be  imprisoned  three 
months  in  the  house  of  correction  and  then  to  be  publicly  whipped  at 
Bedford  and  discharged. 

31a  Midsummer  sessions.  Gaol  calendar  :— William  Eolfe,_ committed  23rd 
June  for  running  away  and  leaving  his  wife  and  family  chargeable  to 
the  parish  of  Hawnes.  Ordered  to  remain  six  months  and  to  be 
publicly  whipped  and  at  the  expiration  of  the  six  months  to  be  taken 
to  Hawnes  and  again  publicly  whipped  there  and  discharged. 

72 104   22 — 25  August.     Certificates  of   the   conviction   of   divers  persons  for 

reeling  false  or  short  yarn. 

105  9th  November.  Certificate  of  the  conviction  of  Arthur  Rocke  of  the 
parish  of  Woburn,  carrier,  for  unloading  from  his  waggon  certain  wares, 
goods  or  merchandize  before  the  same  came  to  the  weighing  engine  at 
Puddle  Hill  tollgate  in  the  parish  of  Houghton  Regis,  in  order  to  avoid 
payment  of  toll. 

133  Account  of  William  Clare; — Paid  the  beadle  of  Bedford  for  publicly 
whipping  Daniel  Roberts  5s.,  &c.  Broth,  &c.,  for  live  prisoners  being 
ill  II  2s.  Paid  Mr.  Bradley  for  candles  for  the  use  of  the  chapel  at 
the  bridewell,  2s.  2d. 

156  Account  of  the  same  : — For  a  cart  and  horse  to  take  Peter  Linford  to 
Harrold  to  be  publicly  whipped,  5s. 

-I  KQ  Account  for  work  at  the  gaol  and  sessions  bouse  : — Mending  the  iloors 
where  the  rats  came  in  ;  making  a  new  bedstead  and  mending  the  old, 
putting  up  shelves  for  the  debtors,  mending  the  chapel  floor,  dogs 
kennel  and  ventilator.  For  a  coffin  for  the  prisoner  that  died  in  the 
gaol  and  for  wool  and  a  cap,  &c. 

178  26th  April.  Presentment  that  there  is  an  ancient  highway  leading  from 
the  town  of  Luton  to  the  town  of  Dunstable  and  a  certain  part  thereof 
lying  in  the  hamlet  of  Limbury  in  the  paiish  of  Luton  from  the 
boundary  stump  in  Clay  Lane  to  the  end  of  the  said  hamlet  of  Limbury 
at  that  part  of  the  highway  near  the  east  end  of  a  close  there  called 
Caterpillar  Close  in  the  occujjation  of  Joseph  Gutteridge  containing  in 
length  four  furlongs  ten  poles  and  in  breatlth  20  feet  and  also  in  the 
haudet   of  Leagrave  in  the  Parish  of  Luton  from  the  east  end  of  the 


."0 

aforesaid  Caterpillar  Close  to  the  boundary  way  in  the  parish  of 
Hou<,diton  Regis  containing  in  length  one  mile  one  furlong  and  in 
breadth  20  feet  are  in  decay  and  that  the  inhabitants  of  the  said 
hamlets  ought  to  repair  the  same. 

26th  April.  Presentment  that  there  is  an  ancient  highway  leading  from  179 
the  town  of  Sheftbrd  to  the  town  of  Westoning  and  a  certain  part 
thereof  between  Ward  Hedges  and  Pulloxhill  near  the  directing  post 
lying  in  the  parish  of  Flitton,  containing  in  length  60  yards  and  in 
breadth  20  feet,  is  in  decay  and  that  the  inhabitants  of  the  parish  of 
Flitton  ought  to  repair  the  same. 

Midsummer  sessions.  The  justices  assembled  at  the  general  quarter  sessions  189 
of  the  peace  having  taken  into  consideration  the  presentment  of  the 
grand  jury  of  the  condition  of  the  county  gaol  and  having  resolved 
upon  the  necessity  of  enlarging  the  same  by  taking  in  the  site  of  the 
ground  whereon  the  gaoler's  house  and  outhouses  now  stand  as  also  to 
build  cells  above  ground  and  to  have  a  separate  apartment  for  the  sick 
and  to  have  a  separation  in  the  place  of  confinement  for  men  and 
women. — Notice  is  hereby  given  of  such  resolution  and  that  the 
justices  will  at  the  next  general  quarter  sessions  would  be  ready  to  receive 
proposals  plans  and  estimates  relating  to  the  same  from  any  person. 

13th  December.  Letter  from  T.  Potter  to  Jeremy  Fish  Palmer  : — A  few  191 
days  since,  I  committed  to  Bedford  gaol  one  William  White  of 
Westoning  for  not  finding  security  for  the  peace.  The  complainant  is 
his  wife  Mary  whom  I  have  directed  to  call  upon  you  either  to  exhibit 
articles  of  the  peace  against  him  or  to  make  it  up  with  him.  I  have 
not  taken  a  formal  recognizance  as  she  is  Sifeini'iie  amverie  and  a  pauper. 
The  man  seems  to  have  a  savage  stupid  idea  that  he  may  beat  his  wife 
as  much  as  he  pleases,  provided  he  does  not  kill  her.  Perhaps  a  little 
confinement  may  show  him  his  error. 

23rd  December.     A   return   of  the  officers  and  men  in  the  Bedfordshire   192 
Militia. 

Draft  letter   from  Jeremy  Fish  Palmer  to  Lord ,  There  beino- no   194 

perpetual  chaiiman  of  quarter  .sessions  for  Bedfordshire  and  the  next 
sessions  not  falling  till  26th  April,  your  letter  enclosing  copy  of  an 
order  of  the  House  of  Commons  was  sent  to  me  as  clerk  of  the  Peace. 

1787. 

26th  September.  Letter  from  the  Lords  of  the  Council  to  the  Earl  of  10 
Upper  (3ssory,  lord  lieutenant  of  the  county  of  Bedford,  directing  him 
to  order  search  to  be  made  fur  all  straggling  seamen  fit  for  the  King's 
service  and  cause  them  to  be  sent  to  the  clerks  of  the  cheque  of  his 
Majesty's  yards  at  Deptford,  Woolwich,  Chatham,  Sheerness,  Ports- 
mouth, or  Plymouth,  or  to  the  naval  officer  at  Harwich  or  Deal 
according  as  those  places  shall  be  nearest  to  where  such  straggling 
seamen  shall  be  found. 


GO 

28  Epiphany  sessions.  Gaol  calendar  : — Henry  Sanders,  committed  for 
running  away  and  leaving  his  famil}'  chargeabh^  to  tlie  parish  of 
Leighton  Buzzard  and  ordered  to  be  publicly  whipped  at  Bedford,  to 
be  kept  to  hard  labour  for  six  months  and  at  the  expiration  thereof  to 
be  taken  to  Leighton  Buzzard  and  there  publicly  whipped  and 
discharged. 

68  13th  April.  Information  of  Thomas  Flanders  of  Little  Staughton, 
carpenter,  who  says  that  he  was  employed  by  tlie  churchwardens  of 
Colmworth  to  repair  the  roof  of  the  jiarish  church,  the  leads  of  which 
were  greatly  decayed  and  were  stripped  ofl'  to  repair  the  roof,  and  that 
Solomon  Salford  stole  some  of  the  lead. 


74   20th  December.     A   return  of  the  officers  and  niPii   of  the  r)cdfordshire 
Militia;  272  were  trained  and  exercised  five  days  and  168  for  23  days. 


103  Account  of  William  Clare  keeper  of  the  house  of  correction  : — Paid 
Spencer  HoAve  for  publicly  whipping  Thomas  Watts  and  John  Norton 
at  Bedford,  5s.  Expenses  occasioned  by  Mary  Dyraock  having  the 
small  pox  in  bridewell ;  for  nurses,  &c.,  10s. 


108   Expenses  of  William  Clare.     For  mutton,  broth,  &c.,  for  Uriah  Johnson, 
John  Stains  and  John  Manning  being  ill,  7s.  Gd. 


122   Account  of  John  Howard,  gaoler  : — To  removing  convicts  to  the  hulks  at 
Woolwich. 


167  Mr.  Stuart  informs  Mr.  Palmer  that  he  finds  by  Mr.  Howard's  book  that  the 
Bedford  gaoler  is  entitled  to  6/.  for  one  transported  convict,  to  10/.  if 
there  are  two,  and  to  il.  a  head  if  more  than  that  number. 


1788. 

23  Epiphany  sessions.  Gaol  calendar:  —  Henry  Shadboit,  convicted  (;f 
grand  larceny  and  ordered  to  be  publicly  whipped  at  Bedford  and  to  be 
kept  to  hard  labour  for  six  months. 

26  Easter  sessions.  Gaol  calendar: — Joseph  Whitanioor,  John  Odell  and 
John  Upchurch,  committed  on  suspicion  of  beliaving  with  cruelty  and 
barbarity  towards  a  mastiff  dog  belonging  to  John  Sutton  from  which 
the  dog  languished  for  some  days  and  is  now  dead. 


(50 — 99   9th  May — 12th  June.     Certificates   of  the  conviction   of  divers  persons 
for  reeling  false  or  short  yarn. 


61 

17th    Noveiiilior.     Certificate    of    the    conviction    of   William  Collo  of   119 
Dun.^table,  licenseil  (lealer  in   ^'lovps,   by   retail,   for  selling  a    pair  of 
worsted    gloves  of  the  value   of   Is.    without    a    stamp   ticket   affixed 
thereto. 

The  like  concerning  Martha  Heley  of  Leigh  ton  Buzzard.  120 

A  Return  of  the  officers  and  men  in  the  Bedfordshire  Militia  ;  347  were    121 
trained  and  exercised  for  five  days  and  238  for  23  days. 


Account  for  removing  convicts  to  the  hulks  at  Portsmouth. 


149 


Account  of  the  clerk  of  the  peace.  Drawing  order  in  April,  1786,  160 
respecting  .seven  justices  taking  into  consideration  the  presentment  of 
the  grand  jury  at  the  summer  assizes  and  unanimously  ordering  the 
gaol  to  be  enlarged  by  purchasing  the  house  of  John  Howard  and 
directing  Mr.  Blackburn  the  architect  to  be  written  to  to  view  the  same 
and  to  advertize  for  plans  &c.  Drawing  order  of  resolutions  of  the 
justices  to  enlarge  the  gaol,  to  build  cells  above  ground  an<l  to  advertize 
ftir  plans.  ^Faking  four  short  orders  and  resolutions  of  the  ju.stices  and 
among.st  them,  for  a  ca.se  to  be  stated  for  Mr.  Mansfield's  opinion. 
Drawing  case  respecting  the  building  of  a  new  gaol  within  two  miles  of 
the  site  of  the  old  one  to  lay  before  Mr.  Mansfield.  Attending  24th 
Ontober,  1786,  adjourned  sessions  at  the  S^van  when  resolutions  were 
made  about  building  the  gaol  in  Mr.  Hensman's  garden  and  troatin" 
with  Mr.  Southouse  about  the  purchase  of  the  same.  "W^riting  nine 
letters  to  the  justices  to  know  whether  they  intended  to  attend  at  the 
next  .sessions  and  sending  each  a  copy  of  INfr.  Mansfield's  opinion 
respecting  the  building  of  a  new  gaol.  Writing  December  1  Ith,  1786, 
nine  letters  to  the  ilifferent  justices  to  acquaint  them  that  i\Ir.  Blackburne 
could  not  be  ready  at  the  next  sessions  but  that  he  would  be  ready  to 
attend  with  his  plan  if  they  would  adjourn  the  se.«sions  to  about  the 
middle  of  Febiuaiy.  AVriting  Mr.  Southouse  to  know  what  price  he 
meant  to  fix  for  the  sale  of  two  acres  of  ground  intended  to  build  the 
gaol  upon.  Drawing  order  of  sessions  for  the  clerk  of  the  peace  to 
otter  Mr.  Southouse,  1-^)3/.  15s.  tor  one  acre  and  a  half.  Writing 
31st  May  1787,  letter  to  ^Nlr.  Southouse  with  one  sent  by  the  crier  for 
him  to  serve  on  Mr.  Southouse  in  Essex.  Writing  Mr.  Southouse  to 
send  his  agent  Mr.  Hodgson  of  the  Temple  and  wiiUng  Mr.  Hodgson. 

9th  October.       A    List    containing    every    district    within    the    county    of    197 
Bedford  and  the  town  of  Bedford   ifor  which  a  separate  and  distinct 
collector  or  j'oint  collectors  of  the  land  tax  is  or  are  now  appointed. 

1789. 

2-2nd  Apiil.  Notice  to  cpiarter  sessions  by  Joseph  Biook,  l!enj;uiiin  Keeve,  3 
Peter  liassctt  and  John  Grant,  liuu.seholders  and  inhabitants  of 
Leighton  Buzzard  that  the  new  building  called  the  Meeting  House 
.sitnate  near  the  Almshouses  in  the  North  En.l  of  Leighton  Buzzard  is 
intended  to  be  iised  by  them  and  others,  protest  ant  dissenters  from  the 
Church  of  England  called  (Quakers,  as  a  place  of  worship. 


62 
19 — ini    Lists  of  persons  qualified  to  servo  on  juries. 

162  Michaelmas  sessions.  Gaol  calendar: — Gec^r^o  Viileiitine  convicted  of 
stealing  a  quantity  of  faggots  and  other  wood,  value  Is.,  and  ordered  to 
be  kept  to  hard  labour  for  14  days  and  before  he  is  discharged  to 
receive  50  lashes  on  his  bare  back. 

198  10th  January.  Certificate  of  the  conviction  of  ^Nfary  Austin  of  Eaton 
Socon  of  reeling  short  or  false  yarn. 

]  99  4th  February.  Certificate  by  William  Butcher,  Thomas  Fisher,  Porkinton 
Braysher,  Francis  Bushljy,  William  Clarke,  and  Thomas  Roffe  that 
they  intend  to  use  the  house  of  John  Dimmock  for  a  place  of  worship 
for  protestant  dissenters  called  Baptists. 

200  20th  April.  Certificate  by  John  Harris,  plumber,  Robert  Carey,  surgeon, 
Joseph  Barnes,  rope-maker,  and  Samuel  Handscomb,  watchmaker,  that 
they  intend  to  use  the  house  of  j\Irs.  Sarah  Ednninds  in  West  Street, 
Woburn,  as  a  place  of  worship  for  protestant  dissenters. 

202  22nd  December.  A  Return  of  the  officers  and  men  of  the  Bedfordshire 
Militia  ;  400  men  were  trained  and  exercised  for  five  days  and  272  for 
23  days. 


230  Account 

for  stoppi 


for  putting  up  boards  in  the  arch  for  the  judge  at  the  sessions  house, 
topping  rat  holes  in  the  gaol,  for  putting  spurs  to  the  gallows,  &c. 


236  Account  of  Thomas  Gadby.     Account  for  inoculating  three  felons  in  the 

gaol,  1 /.  lis.  6d. ;  for  inoculating  four  prisoners  in  the  bridewell,  '21.  2s.; 
and  two  prisoners  in  the  gaol,  1/.  Is. 

237  Account    of  William    Clare,   keeper    of    the    house   of    correction  : — Paid 

Spencer  How  for  publicly  whipping  James  Clare  and  Thomas  Cook  at 
Woburn,  10s.  For  extra  attendance  on  four  prisoners  inoculated  for 
the  small-pox. 

243  Account  for  repairs  to  that  part  of  St.  Neot's  l)ridge  belonging  to 
Bedfordshire  ;  stone,  biick,  iron  and  lead  work. 

249  Bill  of  the  clerk  of  the  peace  : — Writing  letter  to  Lord  Sydney  that  some 
of  the  convicts  might  be  sent  to  Botany  Bay. 

2.52 267    Returns  of  the  prices  of  corn. 

280  Indictment  of  Thomas  Lucas  of  Woburn,  saddler,  for  throwing  alum,  lime 
and  other  things  used  foi'  dressing  the;  skins  (jf  l)easts  into  the  stream 
of  water  in  the  handet  of  Birclimore  in  the  parish  of  Woburn  which 
supplies  the  inhabitants  with  water  for  the  use  of  their  families. 


63 

3rd  July.  Bedford  Gaol.  Letter  from  Craney  to  Mr.  Hinson,  attorney  284 
at  law,  Pottoii  : — I  should  be  very  glad  if  yuu  would  be  so  good  as  to 
prevail  with  Mr.  Masters  to  forgive  ine  and  to  .stop  a  prosecution 
against  nie  as  I  am  heartily  sorry  for  assaulting  him  in  .so  gross  a 
manner,  begging  his  pardon  as  I  have  Sir  Philip's  in  the  .same  manner, 
and  I  am  willing  to  advertize  myself  in  the  public  paper  as  I  hope  he 
will  think  of  my  nine  week.s'  imprisonment  and  locked  down  in  the 
dungeon  every  night  with  the  convicts. 

1790. 

Midsummer  sessions.     Gaol  calendar: — Elizabeth  Arnold,  committed  for   23 
stealing  a  quantity  of  plaited  straw  for   "  hatting,"   the    property    of 
Thomas  CoUett  of  Luton. 

Midsummer  sessions.      Gaol  calendar: — Thomas  Walton,  committed  for   24 
riotously    assembling    in    the    parish    of    Ampthill    and  breaking  the 
windows  of  the  workhouse  there. 

2nd  March.       Certificate  of  the  conviction  of  John  Savage  for   cutting  28 
down  underwood  in  the  wood  called  the  Great  Wood  in  the  parish  of 
Odel,  the  property  of  Sir  Rowland  Alston,  bart. 

10th  April.     Certificates  of  the  conviction  of  divers  persons  for  reeling  49 — 52 
short  yarn. 

29th  July.     Certificate  of  the  conviction  of  John  Eandy  for  swearing  two   58 
profane  oaths. 

5th  October.  Certificate  by  J.  Whitbread  that  he  has  examined  the  59 
workhouse  in  the  parish  of  Shillingtou  and  the  condition  of  the  poor 
therein.  He  finds  the  building  is  in  good  condition  and  that  there  is  a 
pest-house  in  the  field  belonging  to  it.  The  number  of  poor  is  25. 
Their  food,  clothing,  and  the  sheets  of  their  beds  are  let  by  contract  to 
Thomas  Porter  who  keeps  an  alehouse  about  half  a  mile  off.  The 
victuals  are  dressed  at  his  house  and  thence  carried  to  the  workhouse 
and  the  poor  do  not  find  fault  with  it.  They  have  two  shirts  or  shifts 
each.  There  are  twelve  beds  in  all  and  nine  of  them  have  only  one 
pair  of  sheets  and  the  poor  lie  without  while  they  are  washed  and  dried. 
The  three  other  beds  have  two  pair  of  sheets  each  but  the  coverin^-s  for 
the  beds  want  addition  and  making  good.  There  is  necessity  for  more 
sheeting  and  coverings  and  more  attention  ought  to  be  paid  by  the 
overseer  who  lives  at  a  great  distance  and  very  seldom  goes  there  and 

the  whole  is  left  to Porter,  the  contractor,  and  the  poor  look 

upon  him  as  their  master.  The  parish  pays  him  15/  a  month,  reckoniiH"- 
12  months  to  the  year,  and  he  receives  about  10s.  a  week  for  boys  let 
out  to  farmers  and  about  20/  a  year  for  spinning  done  in  the  workhouse. 
He  pays  about  1 4s.  a  week  to  the  poor  out  of  the  house  and  considering 
that  his  contract  is  for  food,  I'aiment  ami  slu^'ting  and  if  he  does  them 
justice  and  they  do  not  complain  he  i^i  not  over  paid. 


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He  told  me  he  chiefly  feeds  them  on  hog's  flesli  and  sometimes  he  can  buy 
a  little  bull  and  kill  and  sell  it  about  the  parish  and  reserve  a  part  for 
the  poor  as  he  has  lately  done,  but  the  poor  told  me  they  had  oidy 
the  head. 

INFy  complaint  to  the  sessions  is  only  about  the  linen  and  covering',  but  1  beg 
leave  to  remark  that  it  is  a  bad  way  of  providing  for  the  poor  by  letting 
them  out  iu  this  way  to  contractors  an<l  I  wish  the  Bench  would 
recommend  to  the  parish  by  their  overseer,  Mr.  Taylor,  to  have  a 
master  to  their  workhouse  and  to  feed  them  at  home  and  to  encourage 
them.  Their  poor  rate  is  only  16d.  in  the  pound  which,  compared 
with  other  parishes,  is  reckoned  low,  and  as  their  parish  was  justly 
censured  in  1787  when  they  buried  no  less  than  twelve  by  one  sickness 
and  was  the  cause  of  an  application  to  Parliament  for  relief  in  such  cases. 

Their  bread  is  made  of  wheat  and  rye  and  when  well  baked  is  not 
complained  of  but  it  was  ill-baked  this  day. 

67  Account  of  John  Howard,  gaoler,  for  removing  two  convicts  on  board  the 
ship  Neptune  at  Deptford,  10/.  To  gaol  fee  for  removing  nine  convicts 
to  Portsmouth  at  4/.  each,  36/.  To  expenses  on  the  road  to  Portsmouth 
coach  hire,  guards,  caravan,  waterman  and  uther  expenses  on  the  road, 
22/.  10s. 

78  Account  for  opening  the  vault  in  the  sessions  house  for  the  masons  to 
clean ;  for  mending  the  boards  in  the  ward  where  they  beat  hemp,  &c. 

Oy — 105    Returns  of  the  prices  of  corn. 

115  Hth  July.  Certificate  by  John  Howard,  gaoler,  in  pursuance  of  the 
statutes :  —that  felons  and  debtors  are  kept  in  separate  wards,  but  there 
being  only  one  yard  they  mix  there.  The  gaoler  does  not  lend,  use, 
give  away  or  suffer  spiritous  liquors  in  the  gaol.  A  list  of  the  fees 
payable  by  debtors  and  of  the  rules  and  orders  for  the  government  of 
gaols  and  prisons  is  hung  up  in  the  gaol.  A  clergyman  is  provided  to 
ulHciate  in  the  gaol. 

14th  Ceo.  Ill,  c.  2,  enacts  that  persons  acquitted  or  discharged  upon 
proclamation  from  want  of  prosecution  shall  be  discharged  immediately 
in  open  court  and  without  fee.  "To  do  this  in  open  court  an  iron  stock 
must  be  Hxed  in  the  sessions  house  in  order  to  knock  off  their  irons." 

The  walls  and  ceilings  of  the  cells  have  been  scraped  and  whitewashed  since 
the  last  sessions. 

The  cells  have  been  kept  clean  and  are  provided  wdth  fresh  air  by  ventilators. 

It  is  enacted  that  two  rooms  shall  be  set  apart  for  the  sick.  This  might  be 
done  now,  there  being  only  eight  prisoners,  otherwise  there  would  not 
be  sufficient  room. 

A  warm  and  cold  bath  or  Ijathing  tubs  an;  not  provided. 

A  surgeon  is  appointed  with  a  salary. 


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I79I- 


Epiphany  sessions.  "  The  magistrates  of  the  county  and  town  of  Bedford  3 
being  convinced  of  the  ill  tendency  of  stage  fighting  or  boxing  matches 
have  resolved  that  public  notice  be  given  that  they  are  determined  not 
to  suffer  them  to  take  place  in  the  said  county  or  town,  and  all  persons 
are  hereby  warned  to  take  notice  thereof."  Signed  by  Fish  Palmer, 
clerk  of  the  peace, 

29th  June.  Order  by  Sir  Philip  Monoux  and  Philip  Gery,  Esq.,  justices  8 
of  the  peace,  that  the  footpath  leading  from  Langford  End,  in  the 
parish  of  Temsford  to  the  town  of  Temsford,  may  be  diverted  and 
turned  out  of  the  private  land  of  Sir  Gillies  Payne,  where  it  now 
runs  across  the  turnpike  road  at  the  end  of  Langford  End  Lane,  along 
the  west  side  of  the  turnpike  road  till  it  enters  into  a  close  of  the  said 
Sir  Gillies  Payne,  called  the  Lime  Tree  Close,  and  thence  to  be 
continued  to  the  south  end  of  the  said  close  where  it  enters  again  into 
the  said  turnpike  road,  provided  the  said  Sir  Gillies  shall  well  and 
substantially  fence  the  said  footpath  from  the  turnpike  road  and  make 
and  form  the  same  under  the  justices'  directions. 


29th  June.  Order  by  Sir  Philip  Monoux  and  William  Gery,  Esq.  9 
Eeciting  that  upon  view  they  found  that  a  certain  footpath  in  the 
parish  of  Temsford  leading  from  Lambcourt  End  to  Church  End, 
containing  in  length  1964  feet  and  in  breadth  three  feet,  beginning  at 
a  stile  in  Lambcourt  Lane  and  leading  through  Sir  Gillies  Payne's 
Wood  Close  to  his  White  Gate  at  the  end  thereof,  cannot  be  made 
commodious  without  diverting  the  same,  and  having  viewed  a  course 
for  the  proposed  new  footpath  through  a  close  of  the  said  Sir  Gillies 
Payne,  called  the  Lime  Ground,  and  then  along  the  west  side  of  the 
turnpike  road  till  it  comes  opposite  Lambcourt  End  Lane  and  across 
the  said  turnpike  road  into  the  said  lane,  containing  in  length  2508 
feet,  they  order  that  this  shall  be  done  ancl  that  Sir  Gillies  Payne 
shall  well  and  substantially  fence  the  said  footpath  from  the  turnpike 
road  and  make  the  same  of  the  width  of  8  feet, 

1  o 

Two  justices,  Tiy  an  order  of  23rd  November,  1791,  removed  Moses  Shaw 
and  Susannah  his  wife,  and  their  eight  children,  from  the  parish  of 
Stotfold,  ill  Bedfordshire,  to  the  parish  of  Chilvers  Coton,  in 
Warwickshire.  The  sessions,  on  appeal,  quashed  the  order  and  state 
the  following  case  :  — 

Moses  Shaw,  the  pauper,  was  born  at  Stotfold,  in  1741.  His 
father,  who  died  about  20  years  since,  was  then  und  continued 
till  the  time  of  his  death  a  settled  inhabitant  of  Chilvers 
Coton,  and  the  pauper,  Moses  Shaw,  has  acquired  no  settlement 
in  his  own  right  except  in  the  manner  following  : — 

The  said  pauper  with  his  wife  and  five  children  (none  of  whom 
nor  any  of  the  others  have  gained  any  settlement  in  their  own 
right)  was  removed  from  the  parish  of  Sandon  under  an 
order.     The  parish  oflioers  of  Sandou  took  this  order  and  the 


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paupers  immediately  to  Stotfold  and  there  delivered  them 
with  the  order  to  the  parish  officer  of  Stotfold  by  whom  they 
were  received,  and  against  that  order  there  was  no  appeal. 
The  pauper,  with  his  family,  has  been  ever  since,  till  the 
present  removal,  occasionally  resident  in  and  relieved  by  the 
parish  of  Stotfold.  It  was  then  proved  on  the  part  of  the 
respondents  (after  hearing  counsel  for  the  appellants  who 
objected  to  the  evidence  as  inadraissable,  but  which  objection 
was  overruled  by  the  court)  that  the  order  of  removal  from 
Sandon  to  Stotfold,  and  the  examination  on  which  that  order 
was  founded,  were  in  fact  signed  and  taken  by  the  two  justices 
separately  and  not  in  the  presence  of  each  other,  and  that 
one  of  the  two  justices  (Mr.  Wortham),  though  a  magistrate 
for  the  county  of  Hertford,  took  the  examination  and  signed 
the  order  at  his  own  house,  situate  in  that  part  of  the  town 
of  Royston  which  lies  in  the  county  of  Cambridge,  the  town 
of  Royston  being  partly  in  the  county  of  Cambridge  and 
partly  in  the  county  of  Hertford. 

36  Epiphany  sessions.     Sarah  Smith,  a  prisoner  in  the  house   of  correction, 

was  committed  for  one  month  because  she,  being  a  servant  of 
husbandry  to  John  Bithrey,  was  guilty  of  divers  misdemeanours  and 
particularly  of  being  very  impudent  and  abusive  to  her  master  and 
disobedient  to  his  orders. 

37  Epiphany  sessions.     Gaol  calendar: — George  James  Simonds,  committed 

24th  November,  1 790,  charged  on  the  affirmation  of  John  Wiffin,  of 
Westwood,  a  quaker,  with  breaking  into  his  house  and  stealing  ribbons 
and  millinery. 

38  Easter  sessions.     Gaol    calendar: — James    Bull,   charged,  on  suspicion, 

with  writing  and  publishing  a  letter  of  a  treasonable  and  seditious 
nature. 

John  Robertson,  Joseph  Humphries,  John  Butterfield,  John  Pearson, 
William  Fennell,  James  Manning,  William  FitzJohn,  Timothy 
Dickerson,  convicts  remaining. 

43   Michaelmas  sessions.     GaOl  calendar  :  —  Jabus  Dry,  Thomas  Gilbert,  and 

Samuel  Phelts,  capital  convicts  remaining. 

68  12th  January.  Certificate  by  William  Baker,  minister,  William  Hill, 
William  Smith,  John  Corby,  Joseph  Whitehouse  and  John  Simmons, 
inhabitants  of  the  town  of  Bedford,  that  they  intend  to  use  a  building 
commonly  called  Mr.  Hill's  barn  in  his  orchard,  in  the  parish  of 
St.  Peter,  and  fronting  Queen's  head  lane  in  Bedford,  as  a  place  of 
public  worship  by  a  congregation  of  Protestant  dissenters  usually 
denominated  Independents,  and  praying  that  the  same  may  be 
registered  according  to  law. 

92  11th  August.  Certificate  by  AVilliam  Tansley  and  Thomas  Dumvile  that 
they  intend  to  use  the  house  of  Thomas  Cliurchman  Dumvile,  of 
Shetibrd,  as  a  place  of  public  worship  for  Protestant  dissenters. 


07 

5th  October.  Certificate  by  John  Howard,  gaoler,  that  the  orders  under  94 
various  acts  for  regulating  gaols  have  been  observed,  except  that  where 
felons  and  debtors  are  required  to  be  kept  separate,  they  are  kept  in 
separate  wards,  but,  there  being  only  one  yard,  they  there  mix  ;  also 
that  where  two  rooms  should  be  set  apart  for  the  sick,  this  might  be 
done  if  there  were  not  many  prisoners ;  and  that  a  warm  and  cold 
bath  or  bathing  tub  are  not  provided. 

22nd  December.  A  Return  of  the  names  and  rank  of  the  officers  and  96 
number  of  men  of  the  Bedfordshire  Militia,  viz.  : — The  Earl  of  Ossory, 
colonel  ;  Francis  Moore,  major  ;  Thomas  Alston,  John  Payne,  Richard 
Oilpiu  and  Peter  Payne,  captains ;  John  Clerk  Docwra,  captain- 
lieutenant ;  Richard  Sawell,  Andrew  Lesley,  Roger  Price,  Thomas  P. 
Hankin,  John  Moore  and  Edward  Trelawney,  lieutenants  ;  and  John 
Moore,  adjutant. 

The  Militia  were  trained  and  exercised  28  days  from  1st  May  last.     Four 
hundred  were  exercised  five  days,  and  272  for  twenty-three  days. 

Account   of  C.  Dilby   for  advertising  notice  concerning  boxing  in  the   100 
Northampton  Mercury  and  Cambridge  Chronicle,  six  morning  and  six 
evening  newspapers,  4Z.  4s.  Od. 

Account   for  work   done   at   the  county  gaol  : — For   iron    bars   for   the   106 
dungeon,  &c. 

Account   of   William   Clare,   keeper  of  the  house  of   correction  : — Paid   107 
Spencer  How  for  publicly  whipping  Robert  Barns  at  Kerapston,  5s. 
For  three  pounds  of  candles  for  the  use  of  the  Chapel  in  the  bridewell, 
2s.  2d.,  &c. 

Account  of  Negus  Easton  and  John  Simens  : — To  repairing  the  chapel   110 
iloor  and  forms  and  crijj  bedstead,  &c.     For  a  plank  to  the  dungeon  in 
the  yard  and  cover  for  vault  at  the  sessions  house,  &c. 

Gaoler's  account: — To  removing  Joseph  Sylvester  on  board  the  William   113 
t^-  A7ni,  transport,  being  at  Dejjtford,   6/.     To  candles  used  in  prison 
at  locking  up,  3s.,  &c. 

Gaoler's  account: — To  conveying  on  board  the  ship  Pit,  lying  at  ijg 
Graveseud,  Joseph  Humphries,  Juhn  Robertson,  John  Butterfield,  John 
Pearson,  William  Fennell,  Timothy  Dickerson,  James  Manning  and 
William  FitzJohn,  32/.  To  an  extra  expense  from  the  Pool  of 
London  to  Graveseud,  not  saving  the  tide,  being  obliged  to  remain  on 
board  the  Graveseud  boat  one  night,  21.   15s. 

Account  for  bricklayer's  work  done  to  Barford  bridge.  jjg 

Account  of  William  Clare,  keeper  of  the  house  of  correction  : — To  mutton    120 
broth,  wine,  &c.,  for  Thomas  Barratt,  he  being  very  ill  for  some  time, 
5s.  6d.,  &c. 


6S 

122  Account  of  the  same  : — Paid  for  hire  of  linrse  and  cart  when  Thomas 
iS^orman  was  publicly  whipped  at  Harrold,  os.     For  whipping  him,  5s. 

133  Gaoler's  account : — To  a  journey  to  Baldock  with  a  reprieve  for  Samuel 
Phelts  for  the  under  sheriff  to  stay  the  execution,  12s. 

142 153   Returns  of  the  prices  of  corn,  &c. 

170  Presentment  that  there  is  an  ancient  highway  leading  from  the  town  of 
Eaton  to  Bletsoe,  a  certain  part  whereof,  lying  in  the  parish  of  Eaton 
Socon,  containing  in  length  from  the  White  Gate  at  Biishmead  Wood 
Corner  to  the  bridge  at  the  entrance  of  Cadberry  Lane,  one  mile,  and 
in  breadth  20  feet,  is  in  decay,  and  that  the  inhabitants  of  tlie  parish 
of  Eaton  Socon  ought  to  repair  the  same. 

173  1st    January.       Letter    addressed    from    Elacksfields,   Southwark,    from 

W.  Hobson  C?)  to  the  clerk  of  the  Peace,  enclosing  a  proposal  for 
executing  the  designs  of  his  late  brother-indaw,  William  Blackburn, 
who  was  engaged  as  architect  for  building  the  intended  new  gaol  at 
Bedford. 

174  1st  January.     Letter  from  the  same  to  the  justices  of  the  peace,  oftering 

his  services  in  the  room  of  his  late  brother-indaw,  the  executing  of 
whose  designs.  The  writer  continues,  "  I  Hatter  myself  I  shall  be 
enabled  to  do  more  accordant  to  his  ideas  and  intentions  than  any 
other  person,  having  been  bred  up  in  the  architectural  line,  and 
enjoying,  as  I  did,  his  unbounded  friendship  and  confidence,  which  has 
been  extended  to  his  taking  my  opinion  for  almost  every  plan  for  a 
gaol  that  he  has  made.  Tlie  knowledge  of  the  subject  I  have  thereby 
acquired  (though  far  short  of  his)  together  with  the  access  which  I  shall 
freely  have  to  all  his  private  papers  and  remarks,  and  having  engaged 
the  same  clerks  that  were  with  him  embolden  me  to  ciffer  myself  oji 
this  occasion." 

175  28th  February.     Letter  addressed  from   the  Land    Revenue  Office  from 

John  Call  and  John  Fordyce  to  the  clerk  of  the  peace,  asking  him  to 
take  the  earliest  opportunity  of  assembling  the  magistrates  or  grand 
jury  to  lay  before  them  the  paper  addressed  to  them  relative  to  the 
state  of  the  wood  and  timber  in  the  county  of  Bedford. 

176  Paper  of  questions  referred  to  above. 


1792. 

22    Easter    sessions.     Gaol    calendar  : — Convicts    remaining,    Jabu.s    Dry, 
Thomas  Gilbert,  Samuel  Phelts,  Stephen  Hyde  and  Jolm  Hyde. 


Michaelmas  sessions.     Gaol  calendar  : — IioLert  Chapman,  r-hnrged  with    27 
leaving  his  family  chargeable  to  tlie  parish  of  Luton. 

"To  be  confined  a  month  from  next  Monday,  to  be  publicly  whipped  at 
Bedford  next  Saturday  month,  and  to  be  publicly  whipped  next 
Monday  month  at  Luton,  and  then  discharged." 


Information  against  Joseph  Bunyan,  of  Caddington,  labourer,  for  assault.    49 


29th  December,  1792.     Information  and  complaint  of  John  Cooper,   51 
sou  and  agent  of  Mrs.  Ann  Cooper,  of  Sandy  Warren,  in  the  parish  of 
Sandy. 

That  on  24th  December,  about  9  p.m.,  he  set  out  from  his  mother's  to  take 
a  survey  of  the  said  warren  along  the  "  posseseioning  "  (sic)*  way  in  a 
place  called  Deep  Dale,  which  parts  the  parishes  of  Sandy  and  Potton, 
with  a  view  to  look  for  snares  set  by  poachers  trespassing  in  the  said 
warren.     He  complains  of  an  assault. 


4th  July.     Certificate   by    John    Farey,    farmer,    John    Studds,    farmer,    55 
Henry  Clarke,  labourer,  and  J.  Butttield,  dairyman,  all  of  Potsgrove, 
that  they  intend  to  use  the  dwellingdiouse  in  the  parish  of  Potsgrove 
in  the  occupation  of  John   Farey,  farmer,  as  a  meeting  house   or   place 
of  assembly  for  religious  worship  for  Protestant  dissenters. 


4th  July.     Certificate  by  Joseph  Harris,  glazier,  John  Keech,  labourer,   56 
John    'I'urney,    Ijutcher,    and  John    Gurney,    miller,   all    of  Husbond 
Crawley,     that    the    dwelling-house    in     Husbond    Crawley     in     the 
occupation    of    Joseph    Harris,    glazier,   is   intended   to    be    used    as   a 
meeting  house  for  religious  worship  by  Protestant  dissenters. 


Undated.  Certificate  by  William  Negus,  John  Wnodham,  Joseph  57 
Whitehouse,  Nathaniel  Woodham,  Ebenezer  Carit,  and  William 
Smith,  that  a  building  commonly  called  the  Ohl  Chapel  in  the 
George  Yard  belonging  to  Mr.  Blackwell,  in  the  parish  of  St.  Paul, 
l)edford,  is  intended  to  be  u.-ed  as  a  place  (if  pul)lic  worship  by  a 
cungregation  of  Piotestant  Dissenters,  usually  denominated  Baptists. 

3rd  Octolier.     Certificate  by  the  gaoler  to  the  same  effect  as  in  bundle   58 
for  1791  (No.  94),  except  that  the   walls  and    ceilings    have    not    heen 
.scraped  and  whitewashed. 


24th  December,     A  Return  of  the  Bedfordshire  Militia.     The  officers  are   60 
the  same  as  in  1791.     The  Militia  were  trained  and  exercised  for  28 
days  from  30lh  September.      Four  hundred  men   were  trained   for  iive 
days  and  276  for  23  days. 


*  Procession-way. 


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72  Gaoler's  account : — To  nourishment  for  Stephen  Hyde,  sufferinfi  with 
a^ue  and  fever  ;  tindintj  him  wine,  whey,  i^c,  3s.  Ditto  for  Philip 
Huckle  and  Kichard  Kichardson  ;  "  finding  them  buttered  ale,  &c.,  with 
colds,"  2s.  6d. 

76  Account  of  John  Simons.  April  3rd  : — For  a  coffin  for  Tobias  Smith  who 
was  executed,  12s.;  for  cap  and  wool,  3s.;  for  repairing  the  gallows 
and  seat  in  cart,  2s.  6d.,  &c. 

79  Gaoler's  account: — To  refreshments  and  other  nourishments  for  the 
prisoners  for  trial  at  Sessions  House,  finding  them  beer,  bread  and 
cheese  and  "  oringes,"  (Ss.  .'>d.  Nourishments  for  Stephen  Hyde,  ill, 
and  Tol)ias  Smith  and  Philip  Huc-kle,  under  sentence  of  death  ;  finding 
them  wine  and  two  meals  a  tlay  for  three  weeks,  18s,  6d. 

81  Account  of  John  Stewardson  for  smith's  work  done  at  the  gaol  : — For 
cleaning  a  brace  of  pistols  and  a  blunderbuss,  2s.,  &c. 

94  Gaoler's  account : — 6th  August : — To  removing  and  putting  on  board 
the  Fortune  hulk  lying  at  Langston  harbour  near  Portsmouth,  six 
convicts,  at  4/.  each,  exclusive  of  the  expenses  from  London  to 
Portsmouth,  24/.  To  expenses  on  the  road  from  London  to  Portsmouth 
and  Langston  harbour  ;  finding  all  necessaries  for  convicts  on  the  road, 
guards  and  self,  including  coach  hire,  guards,  caravan,  waterman, 
whitesmith  and  coachman,  being  76  miles  from  London  at  Is.  per  mile 
each  convict,  22/.  16s. 

97  Gaoler's  account: — 21st  September: — Paid  eight  days'  subsistence  to 
James  JNloreton,  committed  by  Sir  Philip  Monoux  on  suspicion  of 
being  a  deserter  from  the  P'oot  Cluards,  4s.   9d. 

106  Return  of  the  prices  of  corn,  &c.,  March,   1791,   to  October,  from  which 

date  returns  were  made  by  virtue  of  the  jS^ew  Corn  Act. 

107  IHh  June.     Presentment  that  a  certain  hoise  and  foot  bridge  situate  in 

the  parish  of  iJiddenham  called  Bromham  bridge,  the  same  being  a 
county  bridge  to  be  repaired  by  the  inhabitants  of  the  county  of 
Bedford,  is  in  decay.  Also  that  there  is  another  bridge,  one-half 
whereof  is  situate  in  the  parish  of  Eaton  Socon  in  the  county  of 
Bedford,  and  the  other  half  in  the  jiarish  of  St.  Keots  in  the  county 
of  Huntingdon,  and  that  that  part  of  the  britlge  standing  in  the  county 
of  Bedford  is  in  decay  and  ought  to  be  repaired  by  the  inhabitants  of 
the  county  of  Bedford. 

116  Indictment  of  Ste]ihen  Hudson,  of  ^larston  Moretaine,  for  driving  certain 
sheep  from  the  common  jjound  in  the  parish  of  Marston  ]\Ioretaine 
which  were  impounded  for  trespassing  upon  the  common  fi<'lds  and 
commonable  places  in  the  said  parish. 


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24th  November.  Letter  from  Lord  Grenville,  Secretary  of  State,  to  the  120 
Custos  Rotulorum  of  Bedfordshire  acquainting  him  that  the  King  had 
commanded  the  writer  to  communicate  to  him  the  King's  directions 
that  it  shoukl  be  given  in  charge  to  the  grand  jur}--  at  the  next  quarter 
sessions  of  the  peace  for  the  County  of  Bedford,  to  enquire  into  and 
make  presentments  of  all  seditious  writings  published  in  the  county 
that  should  come  to  their  knowledge,  in  order  that  the  authors, 
printers,  publishers  and  distributors  may  be  dealt  with  according  to 
law. 


i793- 

12th  March.  Order  by  Sir  Philip  Monoux  and  William  Gery,  justices  of  1 
the  peace,  that  having  upon  view  found  that  a  certain  part  of  a 
highway  lying  in  the  parish  of  Roxton,  in  the  hundred  of  Barford, 
leading  from  the  Chequers  in  the  parish  of  Koxton  into  the  road 
leading  from  the  Great  North  Road  to  the  town  of  Bedford,  of  the 
length  of  460  yards  or  thereabouts,  and  of  the  breadth  of  30  feet  or 
thereabouts,  may  be  diverted  and  turned  so  as  to  make  the  same  more 
commodious  for  the  public  ;  and  having  viewed  a  course  proposed  for 
a  new  highway  in  lieu  thereof  through  the  lands  and  grounds  of 
James  Metcalf,  Es(].,  leading  from  the  street  in  the  parish  of  Roxton 
nearly  opposite  the  blacksmith's  shop,  through  the  stackyard  and  close, 
now  in  the  occupation  of  William  Fresh  waters,  and  along  the  north  side 
of  a  close,  in  the  occupation  of  the  said  James  Metcalfe,  into  the  said 
road  leading  from  the  Great  North  Road  to  the  town  of  Bedford,  of 
the  length  of  340  yards  or  thereabouts,  and  of  the  breadth  of  27  feet 
or  thereabouts,  and  having  received  the  consent  of  the  said  .lames 
Metcalf  to  the  said  new  highway  being  made  through  his  lands  they 
therefore  order  that  the  said  highway  be  diverted  as  aforesaid. 

12th  March.      Consent  by  the  said  James  Metcalfe  to  the   proposed   road    2 
passing  through  his  lands. 

Epiphany  sessions.     Thomas  Crossley,  committed  to  the  house  of  correction    20 
for   one    month    for    entering   the   wooil    of   Robert  Dennis,    Esq.,   of 
Kempston,  called  the  Great  Wood  and  damaging  the  underwood. 

Lent  assizes.  Gaol  calendar: — George  Inskip  stands  indicted  for  felony  21 
and  it  appearing  tluit  he  is  disordered  in  his  senses  and  incapable  of 
pleading,  he  is  remanded  to  the  gaol.  It  is  ordered  that  the  sheriff 
shall  deliver  him  to  two  justices  of  the  peace  for  the  county,  in  order 
that  they  may  have  him  safely  kept  and  locked  up  in  some  secure 
place  in  the  said  county,  to  be  there  kept  and  maintained  in  order  to 
be  cured,  if  possible.  Order  to  the  churchwardens  of  St.  Peter's, 
Bedford,  to  which  parish  Inskip  belongs,  to  keep  him  in  coutinement. 

16th    January.     Certificate    by    William    Rush,    John    Corby,    William    53 
Smith,  John  Lilley,  John  Emery  and  Ebenezer  Carit,  that  the  building 
called  Mr.  Leach's  forge  shop,  in  ]Mill  Lane,  in  the  parish  of  St.  Paul, 
Bedford,    is   intended    to   be   used   as   a   place   of   public   worshij)    by 
Protestant  dissenters  called  LJaptists. 


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56  10th  July.  Certificate  by  Francis  Hens,  minister,  William  Cheshire, 
Mary  Hudnall,  Daniel  Ellingham  and  John  Herbert,  that  the  dwelling- 
honse  of  Mrs.  Mary  Hudnall,  situate  in  Totternhoe,  is  intended  to  be 
used  as  a  place  of  public  worship  by  Protestant  dissenters  called 
Baptists. 

58  17th  July.  Application  liy  William  Stevens,  John  Groom,  James  Smith, 
"landlord,"  and  Thomas  Hopkens,  for  the  registration  of  the  dwelling- 
house  of  William  Hill,  of  Upper  Soudon,  as  a  place  of  public 
worship  [for  dissenters'?]. 

66  Gaoler's  account: — To  clothing  Denis  Brown  removed  from  Xewgate, 
and  other  pri.soners  by  order  of  the  surgeon  ;  one  coat  and  waistcoat, 
12s.  6d.  ;  breeches,  2s.  ;  stockings,  2s.  ;  two  shirts,  lis.  ;  flannel  for 
sore  leg,  Is.  4d.,  for  D.  Brown.  One  shirt  for  William  Butcher, 
5s.  6d.  ;  shoes,  3s.  ;  three  shirts  for  John  Daniel,  T.  (Gilbert  and 
Samuel  Cambell,  1 6s.  6d.  One  shirt  for  Edward  Dickinson,  5s.  6d. 
Ditto  for  John  Austin,  5s.  6d.  Three  pairs  of  shoes,  7s.  9d.  For 
finding  Denis  Brown  three  meals  a  day  and  one  pint  of  beer,  for  ten 
weeks  by  order  of  the  surgeon,  at  7s.  per  week,  31.  10s.  To 
nourishment  for  the  principal  part  of  the  prisoners  "  ill  with  exceeding 
bad  colds  ;  finding  them  mutton  broths,  wine  wheys,  ponnadoes,  with 
wine,  etc.,"  ISs.  6d.  To  nourishment  for  William  Jones  and  William 
EUibutt  under  sentence  of  death,  finding  them  a  dinner  and  beer  each 
day,  13  days,  15s.   2d. 

73  Gaoler's  account  for  removing  nine  convicts  to  the  hulks  at  Woolwich, 
36/. 

[The  Sessions  KoUs  for  1794,  1795  &  1796  are  missing.] 


1797. 

^  4th  October.  Appeal  to  (piarter  sessions  of  James  Wood,  D.D.,  rector  of 
the  parish  of  Marston  Moietaine,  against  the  proceedings  of  Charles 
Marion  VVilstead,  Edward  Piatt  and  Joseph  Paurey,  commissioners 
appointed  by  an  Act  of  36  Geo.  III.,  intituled  "An  Act  for  dividing 
and  enclosing  the  open  and  common  fields  and  commonable  lands 
within  the  parish  of  Marston  Moretaine  in  the  county  of  Bedford." 
The  appellant  conceives  himself  aggrieved  inasmuch  as  the  commis- 
sioners have  not  set  out  or  appointed  convenient  or  proper  roadways 
whereby  he  may  gather  the  tithes  arising  and  becoming  payable  to 
him  in  the  said  parish.  He  complains  that  they  have  not  set  out 
any  convenient  road  or  way  whereby  he  may  gather  the  tithes 
arising  upon  certain  lands  in  the  said  parish,  lately  part  of  two 
common  fields  called  H;iydon  Field  and  Church  Field,  allotted  to  the 
Earl  of  Upper  Ossory,  and  now  in  the  occupation  of  tiie  said  Edward 
Piatt,  and  that  they  have  not  set  out  a  convenient  road  or  way 
whereby  appellant  may  gather  and  carry  the  tithes  arising  upon 
certain  lands  in  the  said  parish  called  Sixhills  Field,  allotted  and 
belonging  to  Kichard  Denis.  Also  that  the  commissioners  have  not 
set  out  or  appointed  any   convenient   road   or   way   whereby   he   may 


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gather  and  carry  the  tithes  arising  upon  certain  lands  in  the  said  parish 
called  Church  Field,  allotted  and  belonging  to  the  Earl  Spencer,  and 
now  in  the  occupation  of  John  Kitchener.  And  that  they  have  not 
set  out  any  convenient  road  or  way  whereby  he  may  gather  and  carry 
away  the  tithes  arising  upon  certain  woodland  in  the  said  parish  called 
Adam's  spinney  and  certain  closes  adjoining  belonging  to  Bernard 
Dymock.  And  that  they  have  not  set  out  or  appointed  any 
convenient  way  whereby  he  may  gather  and  carry  away  the  tithes 
arising  upon  certain  lands  in  the  said  parish  in  or  near  Church  Field 
now  or  late  belonging  to  Richard  Ambrose  Reddall,  gentleman,  and 
now  in  the  occupation  of  the  said  Edward  Piatt. 

22nd  December.  Order  by  Sir  Philip  Monoux  and  Francis  Pym,  justices  10 
of  the  peace.  That  having  upon  view  found  that  a  certain  part  of  a 
.footway  in  the  parish  of  Blunham,  leading  through  the  grounds  of 
Susannah  Campbell,  of  Blunham,  widow,  from  the  south  end  of  her 
new  allotment  northward  through  her  present  two  white  gates  over  her 
old  enclosure,  being  in  length  721  feet  or  thereabouts  and  described  in 
the  plan  annexed,  may  be  diverted  and  turned  so  as  to  make  the  same 
more  commodious  to  the  public,  and  having  viewed  a  course  proposed 
for  the  new  footway  in  lieu  thereof  through  the  grounds  of  the  said 
Susannah  Campbell,  being  in  length  772  feet  or  thereabouts  and 
described  in  the  plan  annexed,  and  having  received  the  consent  of  the 
said  Susannah  to  the  proposed  new  road,  they  therefore  order  that  the 
said  footway  be  diverted  and  turned  through  the  grounds  of  the  said 
Susannah  Campbell  from  the  south  end  of  her  new  allotment 
northward  in  a  curved  line  to  the  right  .  .  .  .  ,  the  highway  by 
the  ford  to  the  street  of  the  village  of  Blunham.  And  with  the  like 
consent  they  order  that  the  ground  and  soil  of  the  old  footway,  which 
runs  wholly  through  the .  grounds  of  the  said  Susannah,  shall  be 
enclosed  and  taken  and  enjoyed  for  ever  by  her  and  her  heirs  in  lieu 
of  the  land  for  the  new  footway. 

The  plan  above  mentioned.  11 

Consent  by  the  said  Susannah  Campbell.  12 

4th  October.     Gaoler's  certificate  that  the  directions  in  the  Acts  for  75 
regulating  gaols  have  been  observed. 

22nd  December.     Certificate  by  Sir  Philip  Monoux  and  Sir  Francis  Pym    76 
that  the  new  footway  out  of  the  old  footway  leading  from  South  Mills 
to   the    village    of    Blunham    through    the   lands    of   Mrs.    Susannah 
Campbell  is  put  in  good  repair. 

Account  of  R.  Clements,  constable  : — To  taking  and  keeping  Mary  Dowell   93 
two  days  and  nights,  self  and  assistant,  15s.     Expenses  for  eating  and 
drinking,  10s. 

This  document  is  marked  : — "  The  justices  think  this  too  much,  therefore 
allow  one  guinea  only." 


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97   Gaoler's  account : — To  rftmoving  five  convicts  on  board  the  La  Fortunia 
hulk  lying  in  Langston  Harbour  near  Portsmouth,  20/. 

102   Gaoler's  quarterly  account: — To   finding  broths,   meat,  white  bread 
and  other  nourishment  for  George  Room,  10s. 

122  Indictment  of  David  Smith,  of  Kempston,  yeoman,  for  engrossing  ten 

loads  of  wheat,  value  of  '21.  5s.,  a  load  of  five  bushels. 

123  Indictment  of  John  Sammons,  of  Eaton  Socon,  yeoman,  for  exercising  the 

trade  of  a  butcher  without  having  been  apprenticed  thereto. 

136  2Gth  April.     The  commissioners  of  the  Millbrook  Enclosure   beg  leave  to 

represent  to  the  chairman  and  gentlemen  of  the  Bench  that  they  .are 
attending  the  court  in  order  to  obtain  the  honour  of  a  hearing  in 
respect  to  the  charge  which  has  been  brought  against  them  by 
Mr.  Griffiths  at  a  former  session. 

137  12th  July.     Letter  dated  Silsoe  from   George  Swannell  (or   Swannett), 

shoemaker,  to  the  clerk  of  the  peace.  "  Sir.  I  hope  no  offence  but  I 
made  bold  to  inform  you  that  John  Carter,  my  apprentice,  at  the  last 
quarter  sessions  informed  you  all  that  he  was  better  than  18  years  of 
age,  and  I  have  been  informed  that  he  was  born  in  May  in  the  year 
1780,  which  cannot  make  him  above  17  years  of  age.  Sir,  I  have  a 
great  doctor's  bill  to  pay  for  doctering  him  when  he  was  lame  and  ill 
last  winter.  I  cannot  git  a  friend  to  pay  the  money,  they  know  what 
a  bad  apprentice  he  is.  They  are  determined  if  I  are  cast  into  prison 
has  they  are  obliged  to  maintain  me  and  my  family  has  I  have  been 
ill  these  seven  weeks  and  cannot  do  much  work,  but  thank  [God]  my 
eyes  are  as  clear  as  ever  they  were.  I  have  been  maintained  by  the 
parish  ever  since  I  have  been  ill.  Sir,  I  have  been  perswaded  to 
inform  you  to  acquaint  the  gentlemen,  if  you  please,  that  if  he  was  a 
good  lad  he  would  yarn  double  the  monney  in  the  last  year  as  was 
counted  for  me  to  pay,  but  I  am  shore  if  it  must  be  done  I  must  ley  in 
prison.  I  hope  the  gentlemen  will  take  it  in  consideration  as  Maulden 
officers  intend  to  do  all  they  can  against  nie.  Sir,  I  hope  you  will  do 
all  you  can  to-day  for  me  if  they  come  against  me." 


1798. 

2  5th  January.  Order  by  the  Earl  of  Upper  Ossory  and  Edward  Tanqueray, 
clerk,  justices  of  the  peace.  Recites  that  Christopher  Prynr,  one  of 
the  surveyors  of  the  highways  of  the  hamlet  of  Stopsley,  complained 
that  there  is  a  common  highway  leading  from  Hitchin  to  Dunstable,  a 
certain  part  whereof,  viz.,  so  much  thereof  as  lies  between  a  certain 
place  called  Galley  Hill  Common  and  another  place  called  Bedford 
Turnpike  Road,  206  poles  in  length,  one  side  of  which  last  mentioned 
part  adjoining  to  the  hamlet  of  Stopsley,  lies  in  the  hamlet  of  Stopsley, 
and   is  to   be  and   of  right   ought   to   be  repaired   by   the   hamlet  of 


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Stopsley,  and  the  other  side  of  the  same  part  adjoining  the  parish  of 
Streatley  lies  in  the  parish  of  Streatley,  and  is  to  be  and  of  right 
ought  to  be  repaired  by  the  said  parish  of  Streatley.  He  also  stated 
that  the  repair  of  such  part  of  the  said  highway  is  very  inconvenient 
to  the  hamlet  and  parish  aforesaid,  and  prayed  that  such  part  might  be 
allotted  and  apportioned  for  the  repair  thereof  by  the  justices  aforesaid 
to  the  said  hamlet  of  Stopsley  and  the  parish  of  Streatley,  in  the 
manner  directed  by  an  Act  of  34  Geo.  III.,  entitled  an  Act  fpr  the 
more  effectually  repairing  such  parts  of  the  highways  of  this  kingdom 
as  are  to  be  repaired  by  two  parishes.  It  recites  also  that  a  summons 
was  issued,  by  the  said  justices  with  a  copy  of  the  said  complaint  and 
the  plan  thereto  annexed,  to  the  surveyors  of  the  highways  of  the 
parish  of  Streatley,  or  to  one  or  either  of  them  to  appear  to  shew  cause 
why  the  said  highway  should  not  be  allotted  and  apportioned  for  the 
repair  thereof.  That  James  Kobinson,  one  of  the  surveyors  of  the 
highways  of  the  parish  of  Streatley,  consented  to  the  said  highway 
being  apportioned  to  the  said  hamlet  of  Stopsley  and  the  parish  of 
Streatley.  The  justices  therefore  order  that  the  said  highway  shall  be 
divided  as  follows,  viz.  : — That  at  the  distance  of  116  poles,  measuring 
from  the  place  called  the  Galley  Hill  Common  in  the  hamlet  of 
Stopsley,  there  shall  be  erected  certain  posts  or  stones  marked  or 
engraved  thereon  "  Stopsley  and  Streatley  "  on  each  side  of  the  said 
highway,  and  the  whole  of  the  said  highway  from  the  corner  of  Galley 
Hill  Common  the  distance  of  116  poles  to  such  posts  or  stones  shall  be 
from  time  to  time  and  at  all  times  hereafter  repaired  by  the  hamlet  of 
Stopsley  ;  and  the  whole  of  the  said  highway  from  such  posts  or  stones 
to  the  place  called  Bedford  Turnpike  Road,  being  the  distance  of  90 
poles,  shall  in  like  manner  be  repaired  by  the  parish  of  Streatley. 

Plan  referred  to.  2a 

Epiphany  sessions.      Prisoners    in    the    house    of   correction  : — Elizabeth    31 
Newel,  committed  for  three  months  for  being  refractory  in  the  poor- 
house  in  the  parish  of  Biggleswade. 

Epiphany  sessions.     A  list  of  persons  convicted  at  Lent  Assizes,  1797,  and   32 
sentenced  to  transportation,  hard  labour  in  the  house  of  correction,  and 
of  persons  capitally  convicted  and  reprieved  : — 

John  Warren,  attainted  of  felony  and  horse  stealing  for  which  he  had 
judgment  of  death  but  was  reprieved  and  sentenced  to  transportation 
for  seven  years. 

James  Ridley,  attainted  of  felony  and  sheep  stealing;  like  sentence  but 
received  a  conditional  pardon. 

John  Tyso,  convicted  of  grand  larceny ;  sentenced  to  transportation  for 
seven  years. 

Thomas  Westley,  convicted  of  the  like  ;  sentenced  to  be  kept  to  hard 
labour  for  six  months. 

Michaelmas   sessions.       Gaol    calendar :— William    Goss    and    }*Iarmer   38 
Wooding,  capital  convicts,  convicted  at  the  Summer  Assizes,  remaining. 


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65  6th  July.     Certificate  by  Thomas  Chew  and  W.    Emerton   and   John 

Proctor,  housekeepers,  that  the  dwellinghouse  and  premises  of  Thomas 
Chew,  of  Leighton  Buzzard,  is  intended  to  be  used  as  a  place  of  public 
worship  [for  dissenters]. 

66  11th  July.     Certificate  by  John  Ladds,  of  Tempsford,  yeoman, — appointed 

by  virtue  of  an  Act  of  35  George  III.,  intituled  "  An  Act  for  dividing 
and  enclosing  the  open  and  common  fields,  meadows,  pastures,  waste 
Jands  and  other  commonable  lands  and  grounds  in  the  parish  of 
Henlow  in  the  county  of  Bedford,"  to  be  surveyor  of  all  the  public 
carriage  roads  by  virtue  of  the  said  Act,  set  out  and  appointed  through 
and  over  the  said  lands  and  grounds  by  the  said  Act  intended  to  be 
divided  and  enclosed,  and  to  cause  them  to  be  formed  and  put  in 
repair — that  all  the  said  roads  are  completely  formed  and  made  good. 

82  3rd  October.     Like  Certificate  by  John  Ladds,  surveyor  under  the  Act 

of  37  George  III.,  for  dividing  and  enclosing  the  common  and  other 
fields,  meadows,  &c.,  in  the  parish  of  Dunton,  that  the  roads,  &c., 
appointed  under  the  said  Act  are  completely  formed  and  made  good. 

83  3rd  October.     Certificate  by  John  M.  Howard,  gaoler,  that  the  walls  and 

ceilings  of  the  cells  have  been  scraped  and  whitewashed,  and  that  the 
cells  have  been  kept  clean  and  dry  and  supplied  with  fresh  air ;  that 
two  rooms  may  be  set  apart  for  the  sick  when  there  are  few  prisoners  ; 
that  a  warm  and  cold  bath  are  not  supplied  ;  and  that  a  surgeon  or 
apothecary  is  appointed. 

87   Account  of  J.  Kilpin  for  repairs  to  the  County  Hall : — 

20th  November,  1797.  West  of  the  front,  two  new  standards  and  29  new 
bars,  one  piece  of  top  rail,  13Z.  10s.  9d.  ;  a  new  iron  gate,  5Z.  8s. ;  a 
box  staple  latch,  catch  and  keep,  5s.  ;  cleaning  77  bars,  IL  17s.  6d. ; 
repairing  the  top  rail  and  piecing,  10s. 

18th  December,  1797.  East  of  the  front  door  : — Three  new  standards  and 
26  new  bars  and  one  piece  top  rail,  12Z.  14s.  7d.  ;  repairing  iron  gate, 
10s.  6d.  ;  repairing  top  rail  and  piecing,  10s.;  cleaning  71  bars,  two 
standards  and  4  pieces,  \l.  17s.  6d. 

1st  January,  1798.     Front  gates. — Repairing  a  pair  of  iron  gates,  &c.,  \l.  8s. 

38  Account  of  William  Clare,  keejxn'  of  the  house  of  correction  : — To  mutton, 
broth,  &c.,  for  prisoners  being  ill  some  time,  and  attendance,  7s.  6d. 
Three  pounds  of  candles  for  the  use  of  the  chapel,  2s.  6d.,  &c. 

92  Quarterly  account  of  John  Howard,  gaoler : — To  straw  for  the  prison, 
1/.  5s.  ;  to  attending  to  the  ventilators,  1/.  5s.  ;  to  sweeping  gaol 
chimneys,  2s.  ;  to  clothing  and  other  necessaries  for  prisoners,  10s.  3d.  ; 
to  publicly  whipping  Robert  Lilley  at  Bedford,  10s.  6d.  ;  the  like  to 
George  Room  at  Dunstable,  10s.  6d.  ;  conveying  the  said  Room  to 
Dunstable,  20  miles,  1/.  ;  two  dinners  at  Dunstable  and  drink,  4s.  6d.  ; 
to  washing  the  cliaplain's  surplice,  2s.  Gd.  ;  mending  slioes,  finding 
thread  and  baking  blankets,  4s.  ;  to  six  pounds  of  candles  for  the 
prison,  4s.  9d. 


77 

Account  of  James  Lesley,  clerk  of  the  general  and  sub-division   militia   100 
meetings  for  the  county  of  Bedford  : — 

2nd  March.  Attending  a  meeting  at  Woburn  for  assembling  and  balloting 
the  supplementary  militia  of  the  hundreds  of  Flitt,  Manshead  and 
Redbournstoke. 

5th  March.  Attending  a  meeting  at  Bedford  for  assembling  and  balloting 
the  supplementary  militia  of  the  hundreds  of  Barford,  Stodden,  and 
Willey,  and  the  town  of  Bedford. 

8th  March.  Attending  a  meeting  at  Woburn  for  embodying  the  first 
division  of  this  su})plementary  militia. 

4th  May.  Attending  a  meeting  at  Woburn  for  embodying  the  second 
division. 

Indictment  of  William  Burbidge  and  George  Porter,  of  Riseley,  yeomen,    140 
for  conveying  John  Hunt,  being  poor  and  impotent  and  suffering  from 
the  small-pox,  from  the  parish  of  Risely  to  the  parish  of  Southill,   the 
said  John  Hunt  having  no  legal  settlement  in  the  parish  of  Southill, 
and  for  leaving  him  chargeable  to  the  said  parish. 


1799. 

Easter  sessions.     Gaol  calendar: — James  Hughes,  Joseph   Simons,  and   27 
Josejih  Pendridge,  capital  convicts  reprieved  from  death. 

7th  January.     Certificate  by  Francis  Hews,  minister,  Richard  Gutteridge,   57 
William  Cheshire,  Thomas  Hill,  William  Fossey,  Joseph  Rawley,  and 
William  Mayles,  that  the  house  of  Joseph  Rawley,  of  Westoning,  is 
intended  to  be  used  as  a  place  of  public  worship. 

6th  March.     Certificate  of  the  conviction  of  Susannah  Seaton  for  deliverino-   62 
to  Ann  Neal,  "  putter  out  of  wool,"   in  the   parish   of  Roxton,  false 
reeled  yarn.      Fined  5s.,  being  her  first  offence  against   an  Act   of   14 
George  III.  for  preventing  frauds  and   abuses   committed  by   persons 
employed  in  the  manufacture  of  hats,  &c. 

Nth  July.     Certificate  of  the  repair  of  a  part  of  the  highway   leading    71 
from    Bedford    to    the    parish    of    Wootton,    situate   in   the   parish   of 
Kerapston,  beginning  at  a  place  called  Scotch  Gap  and  continued  to  the 
parish  of  Wootton  for  the  length  of  1947  yards  and  of  the  breadth  of 
30  feet. 

17th  July.  Certificate  by  Jolin  Ladds— surveyor  appointed  under  the  74 
Act  of  .36  Geo.  111.  for  dividing  and  enclosing  the  open  and  common 
fields,  meadows,  &c.,  in  the  parishes  of  Blunham  and  Northill,  to  set 
out  the  roads  tlnough  and  over  the  lands  and  grounds  in  the  handet  of 
or  township  of  Mo^'geihang(-r,  Chalton,  and  South  Mills  in  the  parish 
of  Blunham,  and  also  over  Beeston  Leasow  otherwise  Beeston  Leys  in 
the  parish  of  Northill— that  the  said  roads  have  been  completely 
formed  aud  made  good. 


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75  17th  July.     Certificate  by  James  Huraberston — surveyor  appointed  under 

the  Act  of  37  Geo.  III.  for  dividing  and  enclosing  the  open  and 
coninion  fields,  meadows,  &c.,  in  the  parish  of  Campton  cum  Shelford, 
for  setting  out  the  carriage  roads  through  the  said  lands — that  the  said 
roads  have  been  completely  formed  and  made  good. 

76  17th  July.     Certificate  by  John  Ladds — the  surveyor  appointed   under 

the  Act  of  37  George  III.  for  dividing  and  enclosing  the  open  and 
common  fields,  meadows,  &c.,  in  the  parish  of  Dunton,  for  setting  out 
the  carriage  roads,  &c.,  through  the  said  lands — that  the  said  roads 
have  been  completely  formed  and  made  good. 

77  17th    July.     Certificate    by    John    Eyre,    of    Blunham — the    surveyor 

appointed  under  the  Act  of  36  Geo.  III.  for  dividing  and  enclosing  the 
open  and  common  fields  in  the  parishes  of  Blunham  and  Northill,  and 
for  setting  out  the  roads  through  the  said  lands  in  hamlet  or  township 
of  Blunham — that  the  said  roads  have  been  completely  formed  and 
repaired. 

78  21st  July.     Certificate  that  the  inhabitants  of  the  county  of  Bedford  who 

stand  indicted  for  not  repairing  a  common  bridge  over  the  river  Ouze 
called  Barford  bridge  have  not  yet  appeared  or  pleaded. 

79  17th  July.     Certificate  by  Edward  Piatt — the  surveyor  appointed  under 

the  act  of  36  George  III.  for  dividing  and  enclosing  the  open  and 
common  fields  and  other  commonable  lands  in  the  parish  of  Marston 
Moretaine,  for  setting  out  the  roads  through  the  said  lands — that  the 
said  roads  have  been  formed  and  put  into  sufficient  repair. 

80  9th    October.     Certificate   by   William  Forsey — the  surveyor  appointed 

under  the  Act  of  37  Geo.  III.  for  dividing  and  enclosing  the  open  and 
common  fields,  &c.,  in  the  parish  of  Southill,  for  setting  out  the  roads 
through  the  said  lands  in  the  hamlets  or  townships  of  Stanford  and 
Broom — that  the  said  roads  have  been  formed. 

81  9th  October.     Gaoler's  certificate  : — That  the  walls  and  ceilings  of  the 

cells  have  been  scraped  and  whitewashed,  and  that  the  cells  have  been 
kept  clean  and  dry  and  supplied  with  fresh  air  ;  that  two  rooms  may 
be  set  apart  for  the  sick  when  there  are  few  prisoners  ;  that  a  warm 
and  cold  bath  are  not  supplied  ;  and  that  a  surgeon  or  apothecary  is 
appointed. 

87  Gaoler's  quarterly  account: — "To  providing  every  necessary  for  the 
support  of  the  prisoners  afflicted  with  fever ;  supplying  them  with 
brandy,  port  wine,  sitters  up ;  finding  victuals  and  beer ;  oil  and 
vinegar  to  wash  the  sick  wards  and  supply  a  fumigating  lamp  with 
candles,  rush-lights,  ponadoes,  sago,  sugar,  mutton  broths  and  porter. 
Also  each  prisoner  after  recovered,  ales  and  three  meals  per  day. 
William  Wilmot,  two  weeks ;  Samuel  Hopkins,  three  weeks;  'young 
Godfrey,'  near  four  weeks  ;  Susannah  Cooper  being  in  a  very  low  way 
was  ordered  beer  and  victuals  for  six  weeks.  Also  meat,  beer  and 
tobacco  for  ten  prisoners,  not  diseased,  to  prevent  the  infection,  for 
14  days,  &c. 


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Similar   account: — To    removing   on    board   the   Fortune  hulk   lying  in    98 
Langston  Harbour,  William  Goss  and  Marnier  Wooding,  two  convicts, 
at  5/.  each.     To  coach   hire,   guards   caravan,    and  other   expenses  to 
Langston,  being  78  miles  from  London,  9/.  lis. 

Midsummer  sessions.     Gaoler's  quarterly  account: — To  finding  victuals   108 
and  other  nourishment  for  sick  prisoners.     To  two  meals  per  day  and 
nourishment  for  eight  weeks  for  Thomas  Ireland  in  a  consumptive  state, 
21.  6s.  8d.     To  bathing  foul  prisoners  and  finding  soap,  3s. 

22nd    June,    1798.     Names   of    persons  and   their  teams   drawing  the    111 
Warwickshire  Militia  from  Dunstable  to   Fenny  Stratford,   five  carts 


Michaelmas  sessions.     Account  of  William  Clare,  keeper  of  the  house  of   114 
correction  : — Paid  for  a  horse  and  cart  to  Woburn  with  Thomas  Ireland 
to  be  publicly  whipped,  being  the  second  time,  agreeably  to  the  order 
of  assize,  6s.  ;  whipping,  5s.  ;  eating,  2s.  6d.  ;  beer,  Is.  3d, 

Presentment  that  there  is  an  ancient  highway  leading  from  Bedford  131 
through  the  parish  of  Bromham  to  the  town  of  Newport  Pagnell,  co. 
Bucks.,  and  that  John  Biggs  unlawfully  erected  a  certain  building 
commonly  called  a  water  mill,  with  bricks,  timber  and  other  materials 
near  the  said  highway,  and  caused  the  same  to  be  set  going.  By 
reason  whereof  and  of  the  appearance,  noise,  and  motion  of  the  said 
water  mill  and  of  the  wheels  thereof  the  king's  subjects  could  not  pass 
with  their  coaches,  carts  and  carriages.  The  said  John  Biggs  also 
erected  another  water  mill  with  bricks,  timber  and  other  materials  in 
the  parish  of  Bromham,  near  a  certain  ancient  highway  [presumably 
the  same  highway]  leading  from  the  town  of  Bedford  through  the 
parish  of  Bromham  to  the  town  of  Newport  Pagnell  to  the  nuisance  of 
the  King's  subjects. 

Indictment    of   Samuel    Widdicombe,    of   Houghton   Regis,   yeoman,   for    132 
violently  assaulting  with  a  horsewhip  one  Benjamin  Knibbs,  collector 
of  the  tolls  for  the  repair  of  the  highways,  at  a  certain  turnpike  gate  in 
the  parish  of  Houghton  Regis. 

Presentment  that  there  is  an  ancient  highway  leading  from  Bedford  to  133 
the  parish  of  Wootton,  a  certain  part  whereof  lying  in  the  parish  of 
Kempston  beginning  at  a  place  called  Scotch  Gap  and  so  continued 
towards  the  parish  of  Wootton  for  the  length  of  1947  yards  and  of  the 
breadth  of  30  feet  is  in  decay,  and  that  the  inhabitants  of  the  parish 
of  Kempston  ought  to  repair  the  same. 

Presentment  that  there  is  an  ancient  highway  leading  from  the  village  of   134 
Southill  to  the  town  of  Biggleswade,  a  certain  part  whereof   lying   in 
the  hamlet  of  Broom  in  the  parish   of   Southill^    containing   in   length 
500  yards  and  in  breadth  40  feet  is  in  decay,  and  that  the  inhabitants 
of  the  hamlet  of  Broom  ought  to  repair  the  same. 


80 

135  Presentment  that  the  common  bridge  over  the  river  Ouze,  commonly 
called  St.  Neots  Bridge,  lying  in  the  parish  of  Eaton  Socon  in  the 
highway  there,  leading  from  the  town  uf  St.  Neots,  co.  Hunts.,  to  the 
market  town  of  Bedford,  being  a  common  highway,  is  ruinous  and  in 
decay,  and  that  the  inhabitants  of  the  county  of  Bedford  ought  to 
repair  the  same. 

13G  Presentment  that  a  common  bridge  over  the  river  Ouze,  commonly  called 
Bromham  Bridge,  lying  in  the  parish  of  Bromham,  being  the  highway 
leading  from  the  market  town  of  Olney,  co.  Bucks.,  to  the  market 
town  of  Bedford  is  ruinous  and  in  decay,  and  that  the  inhabitants  of 
the  county  of  Bedford  ought  to  repair  the  same. 

137  Presentment  that  a  common  bridge  over  the  river  Ouze,  commonly  called 
ill-eat  Barford  Bridge,  lying  in  the  parish  of  Great  Barford  in  the 
highway  there  leading  from  the  market  town  of  Bedford  to  the  market 
town  of  St.  Neots  is  ruinous  and  in  decay,  and  that  the  inhabitants 
of  the  county  of  Bedford  ought  to  repair  the  same. 


i8oo. 

12   24th  May.     Order  by  John  Osborn  and  Samuel  Whitbread,  justices  of  the 
peace. 

Having  viewed  a  certain  part  of  a  highway  in  the  parish  of  Warden  lying 
between  Biggleswade  and  the  village  of  Warden,  beginning  at  or  near 
a  certain  place  called  Doolittle  Mills  in  the  parish  of  Warden,  and 
leading  thence  through  the  grounds  of  Robert  Henry  Ongley,  of  Old 
Warden,  Lord  Ongley,  on  both  sides  thereof  except  on  a  very  small 
part  of  the  south  side  thereof  next  to  the  village  of  Warden,  which 
adjoins  and  passes  by  grounds  belonging  to  the  Earl  of  Exeter  in  the 
tenure  of  the  said  Lord  Ongley  until  it  joins  and  communicates  with 
the  village  of  Warden  for  the  length  of  one  mile  two  furlongs  and  one 
pole  or  thereabouts,  and  particularly  described  in  the  plan  annexed  ; 
they  find  that  it  may  be  diverted  and  turned  so  as  to  make  the  same 
more  commodious  to  the  public. 

They  also  find  that  a  certain  part  of  a  certain  other  highway  in  the  parish 
*  of  Warden  lying  between  the  hamlet  of  Ickwell,  in  the  parish  of 
Northill,  in  the  hundred  of  Wixamtree  and  the  village  of  Southill  in 
the  same  hundred,  beginning  at  or  near  to  the  north  side  of  a  certain 
close  in  the  parish  of  Warden,  formerly  called  Stonehiirs,  and  now 
called  Dog  Kennel  Close  belonging  to  the  said  Lord  Ongley,  and 
leading  thence  through  grounds  of  and  belonging  to  the  said  Lord 
Ongley  on  both  sides  thereof,  unto  and  communicating  with  the  said 
highway  lying  between  Biggleswade  and  Warden,  and  leading  by, 
through,  and  along  a  part  of  tliat  liighway  unto  and  towards  the  north- 
east coiner  of  certain  other  grounds  of  and  belonging  to  the  said  Lord 
Onirlev  called  AVarden  Wairen,  and  thence  tlirou"h  jirounds  belonging  to 
the  said  Lord  Ongley  on  both  sides  thereof,  unto  and  into  a  certain 
other  highway  in  the  ])arish  of  Southill,  at  ur  near  to  certain  cottages 
there  called  the  Church  Houses  for  the  length  of  one  mile  and  37  poles 
or  thereabouts,  and  particularly  described  in  the  plan  annexed,  may  be 


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also  diverted  and  turned  so  as  to  make  the  same  more  commodious  to 
the  public,  into  and  into  part  of  the  same  course  as  the  course  wherein 
the  said  highway  before  first  mentioned  is  intended  to  be  diverted  and 
turned.  And  having  viewed  the  course  proposed  for  the  new  highway 
in  lieu  thereof,  respectively  through  other  the  lands  and  grounds 
belonging  to  the  said  Lord  Ongley,  of  the  length  of  one  mile  and 
33  poles  or  thereabouts,  and  of  the  breadth  of  30  feet  or  thereabouts, 
partieuLarly  described  in  the  plan  annexed,  and  having  received 
evidence  of  the  consent  of  the  said  Lord  Ongley  to  the  said  new 
highway  being  made  through  his  lands,  by  writing  under  his  hand  and 
seal,  The  said  justices  of  the  peace  order  that  the  said  highways  and 
each  of  them  respectively  be  diverted  and  turned  through  the  lands 
aforesaid  in  manner  aforesaid. 


The  plan  referred  to.  12a. 

Consent  by  the  said  Lord  Ongley  (owner  of  the  lands  described  in  the  13 
above-mentioned  plan  through  which  part  of  a  certain  highway  lying 
between  Biggleswade  and  the  village  of  Warden,  and  through  which 
part  of  a  certain  other  highway  lying  between  the  hamlet  of  Ickwell 
in  the  parish  of  Northill  and  the  village  of  Southill  are  and  is  intended 
to  be  respectively  diverted  and  turned,  in  consideration  of  the  said 
several  parts  of  the  said  old  highways  being  sold  and  exchanged  to 
him)  to  the  making  and  continuing  such  course  and  highway  through 
his  lands.  And  also  for  the  consideration  aforesaid  he  consents  and 
agrees  to  make  and  set  out  a  certain  public  footway,  beginning  at  and 
from  a  certain  place  called  Doolittle  Mills  in  the  parish  of  Warden, 
and  leading  thence  through  his  lands  on  both  sides  thereof  unto  and 
into  a  certain  highway  in  the  parish  of  Southill  of  the  length  of  one 
mile  two  furlongs  and  28  poles  or  thereabouts,  and  of  the  breadth  of 
four  feet,  particularly  described  in  the  said  plan.  And  for  the 
consideration  aforesaid  and  for  the  purpose  of  making  the  exchange 
and  purchase  of  the  soil  of  the  said  old  highways  in  lieu  of  the  soil  of 
the  said  new  highway  equal  and  just,  he  consents  to  grant,  appropriate 
and  dedicate  the  said  footway  for  the  accommodation  of  the  public. 

IGth  July.     Order  of  ({uarter  session,    that   John    Austin,   convicted   of  17 
grand  larceny,  be  transported  beyond  seas,  for  seven  years,  as  soon  as 
conveniently  may  be,  to  such  place  as  the  Privy  Council  may  direct. 

13th  December.  Notice  by  John  Knight,  road  surveyor,  that  at  the  next  29 
general  quarter  sessions  to  be  held  on  14th  January,  it  is  intended  to 
certify  to  the  justices  acting  for  the  county  of  Bedford,  that  the  new 
roads  within  the  parish  of  Hai'rold  set  out  by  the  commissioners  for 
dividing,  alloting,  and  enclosing  the  said  parish,  pursuant  to  the  Act 
lately  passed,  are  formed  and  put  into  good  and  sulhcient  repair,  fit  for 
the  passage  of  travellers  and  carriages. 

The  inhabitants  of  Harrold  and  others  whom  it  may  concern  are  requested 
to  notice  that  if  the  justices  allow  and  conhrm  such  certificate  the 
proprietors  of  estates  within  the  said  parish  will  be  thereby  exonerated 


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from  any  farther  charge  for  maintaining  or  repairing  the  said  roads, 
and  the  same  will  come  under  the  usual  parish  surveyors  to  be  repaired 
at  the  expense  of  the  occupiers  within  the  said  parish  as  they  were 
before  the  enclosure  took  place. 

45  Easter  sessions.  Gaol  calendar: — Joseph  Pendridge,  Richard  Morris, 
and  AVilliam  Bonwick,  capital  convicts,  remaining. 

48  A  list  of  persons  convicted  at  the  Lent  and  Summer  assizes,  1799,  of 
transportable  offences,  and  sentenced  to  transportation,  hard  labour,  or 
confinement  in  the  house  of  correction,  and  of  persons  convicted  Avho 
afterwards  received  His  ]\Iajesty's  pardon  on  condition  of  being 
transported. 

105  "11th  day  of  the  4th  month  called  April."  Certificate  by  Puchard 
Prown,  John  Frieth,  Daniel  Brown,  Joseph  Brown,  and  Christopher 
Pryor,  householders  and  inhabitants  of  the  town  and  parish  of  Luton, 
that  the  new  building  called  the  Meeting  House,  situate  in  or  near 
Castle  Street,  Luton,  is  intended  to  be  used  by  them  and  other 
protestant  dissenters,  called  Quakers,  as  a  place  for  divine  worship. 

107  16th  July.     Certificate  by  Philip  Monoux  and  Edward  Tanqueray,  that 

a  certain  part  of  the  highway  in  the  parish  of  Wootton,  beginning  at  a 
place  called  Long  Lane  and  so  continued  towards  the  town  or  village 
of  Wootton  to  the  Church  thereof  for  the  length  of  2134  yards  and  of 
the  breadth  of  30  feet,  has  been  repaired. 

108  7th  October.     Certificate  by   Thomas  Lilburne,   surveyor  of  the  pubhc 

carriage  roads  through  the  new  enclosures  in  the  parish  of  Elstow, 
appointed  by  the  commissioners  named  in  the  Act  of  37  Geo.  III.  for 
dividing  and  enclosing  the  open  and  common  fields,  common  meadows, 
and  other  commonable  lands  and  waste  grounds  in  the  parish  of 
Elstow — that  the  said  roads  are  in  good  repair  and  fit  for  the  passage 
of  travellers  and  carriages. 

109  7th  October.     Certificate  by  Thomas  Lilburne — surveyor  appointed  under 

the  Act  of  37  Geo.  111.  for  dividing  and  enclosing  the  open  and 
common  fields,  &c.,  in  the  parish  of  Southill,  in  the  county  of  Bedford 
— that  all  the  carriage  roads  have  been  made. 

110  8th  October.     Certificate  by  John  Farcy,  road  surveyor,  appointed  under 

the  Act  of  36  Geo.  III.  for  dividing  and  enclosing  the  common  fields, 
common  meadows,  commonable  lands,  commons,  and  waste  grounds  in 
the  parish  of  Maulden — that  the  roads  appointed  by  the  commissioners 
have  been  made. 

112  7th  October.  Certificate  by  "William  Forsey — road  surveyor,  appointed 
under  an  Act  of  37  Geo.  III.  for  dividing  and  enclosing  the  open  and 
common  fields,  meadows,  lands,  commons,  and  commonable  places  in 
the  jjarish  of  Chalgrave — that  the  roads  set  out  by  the  commissioners 
have  been  made. 


Epiphany    sessions.     Gaoler's    quarterly    accounts: — To    linen    and   114 
other  necessaries    for    piisoners  ;    to    finding    wine,   whey,    and   other 
nourishment  for  such  prisoners,  &c. 

Easter  sessions.     Gaoler's  quarterly  account: — To  publicly  whipping   127 
Job  Bottanis  at  Ampthill,    10s.   6d.,  to  chaise   hire  taking   him  there, 
horses,  driver,  toll-gate,  self,  and  man's  expenses,  11.  3s.  6d. 

5th  September.     Gaoler's  account  for  removing  on  board  the  Stanislaus,    144 
lying  off  Woolwich,   the  following  convicts,  viz.  : — Joseph  Simmons, 
Joseph  Pendridge,  John  Austin,  and  John  Jones,  alias  Hughes,  at  5^. 
each— 20^. 


Presentment  that  there  is  a  highway  leading  from  the  parish  of  Broome   162 
to  the   village   of  Temsford,   and   that   a  certain   part   thereof  in  the 
hamlet  of  Hill  in  the  parish  of  Old  Warden  containing  in  length  500 
yards  and  in  breadth  23  feet  is  in  decay,  and  that   the  inhabitants   of 
the  hamlet  of  Hill  ought  to  repair  the  same. 

Presentment  tliat  tliere  is  an  ancient  highway  leading  from  the  town  of  174 
Bedford  to  the  town  or  village  of  the  parish  of  Wootton,  and  that  a 
certain  part  thereof  in  the  parish  of  Wootton,  beginning  at  a  place 
called  Long  Lane  and  so  continuing  towards  the  town  or  village  of 
Wootton  to  the  church  there  for  the  length  of  2434  yards  and  of  the 
breadth  of  30  feet  is  in  decay,  and  that  the  inhabitants  of  the  parish 
of  Wootton  ought  to  repair  the  same. 


i8oi. 

4lh  July.  Notice  by  J.  Farey,  road  surveyor,  that  at  the  next  general  7 
quarter  sessions  to  be  held  on  15th  July,  it  is  intended  to  certify  to 
the  justices  acting  for  the  county  of  Bedford  that  tiie  new  roads  within 
tlie  parish  of  Ridgemont  set  out  by  the  commissioners  for  enclosing  the 
said  parish,  pursuant  to  the  Act  lately  passed,  are  formed  and  put  into 
good  repair. 

The  inhabitants  of  Ridgemont,  and  others  whom  it  may  concern,  are 
requested  to  notice  that  if  the  justices  allow  and  confirm  such 
certificate,  the  proprietors  of  estates  within  the  said  parish  will  be 
thereby  exonerated  from  any  further  charge  for  maintaining  or 
repairing  the  said  roads,  and  the  same  will  come  under  the  parish 
surveyors  to  be  repaired  at  the  expense  of  the  occupiers  within  the 
said  parish. 

Notice,  dated  Luton,  12th  January,   1801,  by  Leonard  Sampson,   that  he    14 
and    the    commissioners    will  justify   their  conduct   in   regard   to  the 
Chalgruve  Road  Certificate  at  the  next  (quarter  sessions. 


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29  List  of  persons  convicted  at  the  Lent  and  Summer  assizes,  1800,  of 
transportable  offences,  and  sentenced  to  transportation,  hard  labour,  or 
confinement  in  the  house  of  correction,  and  of  persons  capitally 
convicted,  who  afterwards  received  the  King's  pardon  on  condition  of 
being  transported. 

32   Like  list  of  persons  convicted  at  the  Lent  and  Summer  assizes,  180L 

88  28th  ]\Iay.  Information  of  William  Jvnowles,  of  Luton,  draper  and 
dealer  in  straw  hats,  that  about  17  score  yards  of  straw  plait  were 
stolen  from  his  house. 

101  7th  September.  Information  of  George  Sams,  of  Tottenham  Street,  in 
the  parish  of  St.  Pancras,  co.  Middlesex,  one  of  the  surveyors  of  the 
Hawkers'  and  Pedlars'  Office,  Somerset  House. 

That  on  1st  September,  Daniel  Sherman,  of  Dunstable,  tailor,  and  James 
Luttley  of  the  same  place,  toyman  and  dealer,  together  with  divers 
others,  to  the  number  of  twenty  and  more,  unknown,  riotously 
assembled  and  attacked  the  house  of  Thomas  Hobbs,  called  the  Red 
Lion,  at  Dunstable,  with  intent  to  forcibly  rescue  one  Thomas  Norris, 
Avho  was  then  and  there  in  the  legal  custody  of  George  Nicholls,  a 
constable  of  Dunstable,  in  company  with  informant  and  Henry 
Ramsden,  another  surveyor  employed  under  the  commissioners  for 
managing  the  licensing  duties  on  hawkers  and  pedlars,  and  arrested 
and  confined  under  an  Act  of  29  Geo.  IIL,  c.  26,  to  regulate  hawkers 
and  pedlars.  And  also  that  the  said  Daniel  Sherman  and  James 
Luttley,  alias  the  Toyman,  with  other  persons,  threatened  the  said 
surveyors  and  incited  and  encouraged  the  said  Thomas  Norris  to  escape 
from  justice  ;  whereby  and  from  personal  fear  and  danger  the  said 
Thomas  Norris  was  set  at  liberty  and  escaped  from  justice. 

Other  depositions  on  the  same  subject  follow. 

108  7th  January.  Certificate  by  John  Knight— road  surveyor  under  the  Act 
of  37  Geo.  111.  for  dividing  and  enclosing  the  open  and  common  fields, 
meadows,  commonable  lands,  and  waste  grounds  and  places  in  the 
j'arish  of  Harrold — that  the  roads  set  out  by  the  comndssioners  are 
now  made. 


109    17th  February.     Certificate  that  the  St.  Keots  bridge  has  been  re^jaired. 

112  14th  April.  Certificate  by  Lord  Ossory  and  others,  five  of  the  trustees 
authorized  Ijy  an  Act  of  17  Gef».  III.,  intituled  "An  Act  for  repairing 
and  widening  the  road  from  Stallgate  Close  at  the  south-west  end  of 
the  town  of  Bedford  to  the  town  of  Ampthill,  and  from  the  town  of 
Ampthill  to  Woburn  Park  in  the  county  of  IJedford.  And  also  the 
road  branching  out  of  the  same  in  Kempston  Field  to  the  turnpike 
road  leading  from  Hitchin  to  the  said  town  of  Bedford."  And  also 
authorized  by  a  certain  other  Act  of  3G    George   111.,    intituled    "  An 


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Act  to  continue  the  term  and  alter  and  enlarge  the  powers  of  an  Act 
passed  in  the  17th  year  of  the  reign  of  his  present  Majesty,  intituled 
"  An  Act  for  repairing  and  widening  the  road  from  Stallgate  Close," 
&c.,  as  above  "  except  so  far  as  relates  to  the  road  leading  from  the 
south  end  of  Kidgemont  Town  to  the  entrance  of  Woburn  Park  at  a 
place  called  the  Ked  Lodges,  and  for  making  and  maintaining  a  road 
from  the  south  end  of  Ridgemont  Town  aforesaid  through  Husborn 
Crawley  to  the  north  end  of  the  town  of  Woburn,  and  for  discon- 
tinuing the  said  part  of  the  said  road  leading  from  the  south  end  of 
Ridgemont  to  the  Red  Lodges  aforesaid,  and  also  for  discontinuing  the 
highway  from  thence  through  the  said  park  to  where  it  joins  the  road 
leading  from  Woburn  to  Eversholt,  all  in  the  said  county  of  Bedford  " 
— that  the  Duke  of  Bedford  has  at  his  own  expense  caused  to  be  made 
and  completed  a  new  road  leading  from  the  south  end  of  the  town  of 
Ridgemont  through  Husborn  Crawley  to  join  the  turnpike  road  leadin" 
from  London  to  Northampton  at  or  near  the  north  end  of  the  town  of 
Woburn,  in  pursuance  of  the  directions  contained  in  the  last  mentioned 
Act. 


15th  July.  The  committee  of  magistrates  appointed  to  consider  the  113 
regulations  for  the  management  of  the  gaol  and  bridewell  produced  at 
the  last  general  quarter  sessions,  and  to  determine  when  it  should  be 
necessary  to  remove  the  prisoners  thereto,  and  to  apply  to  the  sheriff 
for  that  purpose,  and  who  were  also  appointed  the  visiting  magistrates 
of  the  said  gaol,  report  as  follows  : — 

That  having  viewed  the  new  erected  gaol  and  bridewell  they  are  of  opinion 
the  following  works  were  necessary  to  be  immediately  performed,  and 
directed  there  being  performed  accordingly,  viz.  : — Iron  rods  to  be 
fixed  to  the  posts  and  chains  of  the  haha  behind  the  turnkey's  lodge. 
Water  to  be  laid  by  pipes  into  the  gaoler's  kitchen,  and  a  small 
washing  copper  of  18  gallons  to  be  fixed  there.  Iron  grates  to  be 
fixed  in  the  air  holes  of  the  upper  story  of  the  gaol.  A  table  to  be 
placed  in  the  debtor's  day  room.  The  ground  on  the  north  side  of  the 
gaol  wall  to  be  levelled  and  fenced  with  a  quick  fence.  A  wash-house, 
a  straw-barn,  and  other  necessary  buildings  to  be  erected  on  the  "round 
on  the  north  side  of  the  gaol  wall  according  to  a  plan  made  by 
Mr.  Wing.  A  desk  to  be  provided  for  the  gaoler  in  the  chapel,  and 
also  a  distinct  seat  for  the  condemned  criminals.  The  two  cells  for 
refractory  prisoners  to  be  darkened  leaving  sufficient  room  for  the 
circulation  of  fresh  air,  and  rings  to  be  placed  in  the  walls.  The  loose 
stones  in  the  gaol  yard  to  be  removed  and  the  yards  to  be  covered 
with  hue  screened  gravel.  Benches  to  be  placed  in  the  several  yards. 
A  proper  movable  machine  to  be  made  for  the  execution  of  condemned 
criminals  in  the  turnkey's  lodge.  Every  apartment  of  the  gaol  to  be 
numbered  and  lettered.  An  iron  roller  to  be  provided.  The  Acts  of 
Parliament  and  other  things  required  to  be  painted  and  placed  up  iu 
gaols,  to  be  painted  on  boards  and  placed  in  each  of  the  day  rooms. 

It  appearing  to  the  committee  to  be  proper  that  the  road  in  front  of  the 
gaol  should  be  raised  at  least  two  feet,  and  that  an  arch  should  be 
made  over  the  common  sewer  in  ^^'ells  Street  for  the  road  to  pass 
over,  they  have  agreed  with  the  surveyors  of  the  parish  of  St.  Paul, 


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Bedford,  that  on  the  surveyors  performing  those  works  the  treasurer  of 
the  county  shall  pay  to  them  for  the  same  the  sum  of  15/.,  and  that 
the  said  surveyors  shall  be  allowed  to  take  for  the  proposed  works 
such  spare  stone  and  materials,  being  on  the  south  side  of  the  gaol 
wall,  as  shall  not  be  wanted  for  the  use  of  the  gaol. 

The  gaol  being  completed  and  made  tit  for  the  reception  of  prisoners,  the 
committee  certified  the  same  to  the  sheriff  who  caused  the  prisoners  to 
be  removed  thereto  on  the  18th  June  last,  but  the  prisoners  in  the 
house  of  correction  have  not  yet  been  removed. 

The  committee  being  of  opinion  that  the  clothing  of  the  prisoners  on  their 
removal  and  the  furnishing  of  the  cells  with  proper  utensils  required 
the  most  immediate  consideration,  confined  their  attention  to  so  much 
only  of  the  proposed  general  regulations  as  related  thereto.  The 
committee  are  of  opinion  that  each  cell  should  be  provided  with  an 
earthenware  chamber  pot,  a  mop,  a  broom,  and  a  leather  bucket 
(bedding  and  blankets  having  already  been  provided),  and  they  have 
given  directions  to  Mr.  Wing  to  furnish  those  articles.  That  the 
clothing  of  the  male  prisoners  before  convicton  should  consist  of  a 
short  coat  or  jacket,  a  waistcoat,  and  a  pair  of  breeches  of  coarse  cloth 
made  with  black  and  white  wool,  mixed,  without  dye,  the  breeches, 
waistcoat  and  sleeves  of  the  coat  to  be  lined  either  with  flannel  or 
coarse  linen,  two  shirts,  two  pairs  of  stockings,  one  pair  shoes,  and  one 
woollen  cap. 

That  the  clothing  of  the  female  prisoners,  before  conviction,  should  consist 
of  a  jacket  and  petticoat  of  the  same  cloth  as  the  men  but  of  a  thinner 
substance,  a  flannel  under-petticoat,  two  shifts,  two  pairs  of  stockings, 
one  pair  of  shoes,  and  one  woollen  cap. 

That  the  clothes  of  the  prisoners,  after  conviction,  shall  be  of  the  same 
material  dyed  in  various  colours.  That  each  prisoner,  on  his  or  lier 
admission  into  the  gaol  or  bridewell,  be  strip[)ed  naked  and  washed  in 
the  bath  in  warm  water.  That  all  her  or  his  own  clothes  be  baked  in 
the  oven,  properly  ticketed  and  laid  by  to  be  returned  when  he  or 
she  leaves  the  gaol. 

The  committee  have  agreed  with  the  Directors  of  the  Bedford  House  of 
Industry  to  furnish  all  the  clothing  immediately  wanted,  except  the 
shoes,  and  have  agreed  with  Edwarcl  Jones,  of  Bedford,  shoemaker,  to 
furnish  the  shoes. 

The  committee  have  directed  copies  of  such  of  the  proposed  regulations  as 
relate  to  the  gaoler,  the  surgeon,  and  the  chaplain  to  be  sent  to  thenr 
by  the  clerk  of  the  peace,  desiring  them  to  make  such  observations 
thereon  as  may  occur  to  them. 

The  committee  are  of  opinion  that  the  surgeon  should  attend  the  debtors  as 
well  as  the  criminals,  which,  at  present,  he  is  not  obliged  to  do,  and 
for  which  he  expects  an  increase  of  salary. 

The  clerk  of  the  peace  has  by  desire  of  the  committee  made  enquiry  what 
salary  is  allowed  to  gaolers  and  their  turnkeys  in  other  counties,  and 
the  committee  having  considered  thereon  are  of  opinion  that  180/.  per 
annum  is  a  proper  salary  Lu  be  allowed  the  gaoler  as  keeper  both  of  the 


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paol  and  hridftwell,  including  the  salary  of  a  turnkey  to  be  appointed 
by  himself,  but  not  to  be  a  debtor  under  confinement  in  the  gaol. 
The  gaoler  not  to  take  any  fees  except  such  as  are  legally  payable  by 
debtors. 

15th  July.  Certificate  by  J.  Farey — surveyor  of  the  public  carriage  H^: 
roads  in  and  through  the  new  enclosures  in  the  parish  of  Kidgemont, 
appointed  by  the  commissioners  named  in  the  Act  of  36  Geo.  111.  for 
dividing  and  enclosing  the  open  and  common  fields,  common  meadows, 
commons,  and  waste  lands  in  the  parish  of  Ridgemont— that  the  said 
roads  are  in  good  repair. 

Memorandum  of  conviction  for  taking  turnips  from  a  piece  of  enclosed    ll*^ 
lands  in  tlie  common  fields  of  Stagsden. 

1st  October.  Certificate  by  Edward  Tanqueray  and  William  ]\ lead,  that  116 
they  have  viewed  a  certain  part  of  the  roads  or  highways  in  the  parish 
of  Houghton  Regis  leading  thence  towards  the  village  of  Sundon,  and 
lying  between  a  certain  place  called  Houghton  Gap  and  the  village  of 
Houghton  Regis,  containing  in  length  1400  yards  and  in  breadth  40 
feet.  And  also  a  certain  other  part  of  the  said  roads  or  highways  in 
the  parish  of  Houghton  Regis,  leading  from  the  village  of  Houghton 
Regis  towards  the  market  town  of  Toddington,  being  in  a  certain  place 
there  called  ]»edwell  Wash  Brook  and  the  boundary  dividing  the 
parishes  of  Houghton  Regis  and  Chalgrave,  and  containing  in  length 
1000  yards  and  in  breadth  40  feet,  and  have  found  the  same  repaired 
and  amended. 

6th  October.  Certificate  by  Joseph  Howell  and  OllifFe  Seabrook —  118 
surveyors  of  the  public  carriage  roads  through  the  new  enclosures  in 
the  parish  of  Caddington,  in  the  counties  of  Bedford  and  Hertford, 
appointed  by  the  commissioners  named  in  an  Act  of  38  Geo.  III.  for 
dividing  and  enclosing  the  open  and  common  fields — that  such  parts 
of  the  said  roads  as  lie  in  the  county  of  Bedford  are  made  fit  for  the 
passage  of  travellers  and  carriages. 

7th  October.      Report  of  tlie  visiting  magistrates  of  the  gaol  : —  120 

They  have  ordered  the  pumps  in  the  felons'  and  house  of  correction  yards 
to  be  removed  from  the  places  where  they  are  now  fixed  to  the  centre 
of  the  yards,  and  that  spikes  be  placed  on  the  pumps  in  the  other 
yards  to  prevent  the  prisoners  climbing  over.  That  spouts  be  placed 
under  the  eaves  of  the  tiling  of  the  gaol.  That  proper  cisterns  be 
placed  to  hold  a  sufficient  quantity  of  water  for  the  use  of  the  gaol, 
and  that  one  or  more  waste  pipes  be  provided  to  carry  off  the  super- 
fluous water  into  the  common  sewer.  That  the  iron  gates  opening  into 
the  debtors'  ward  may  be  altered  so  as  the  gaoler  may  be  able  to  locdc 
and  unlock  them  on  each  side. 

That  the  iron  gates  on  each  floor  separating  the  gaoler's  house  from  the  gaol, 
be  l)oarded,  so  that  the  i)risoners  may  not  be  able  to  see  into  the  house, 
leaving  such  places  to  open  as  may  be  necessary  for  the  gaoler  to  see 


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through.  That  the  windows  in  the  gaoler's  house  he  altered  so  as  to 
open  and  shut  with  ease,  and  that  fastenings  be  fixed  thereto.  That  a 
porch  or  covering  be  placed  over  the  gaoler's  outer  door,  and  a  weather 
boarding  over  the  cellar  windows.  That  the  windows  on  the  north 
side  of  the  turnkey's  lodge  be  glazed  and  the  iron  door  on  the  same 
side  be  boarded. 

That  curtains  be  provided  for  all  the  doors  of  the  chapel.  That  a  movable 
covering  be  made  over  the  well  of  the  chapel,  and  that  a  prayer  book 
and  bible  be  provided  for  the  use  of  the  chapel.  That  a  covering  be 
made  over  the  bells  affixed  to  the  turnkey's  lodge  and  gaoler's  house. 
That  a  flag  pavement  of  Yorkshire  stone  Le  made  from  the  lodge  to  the 
gaol.  That  a  hand-bell  be  provided  to  give  notice  of  the  locking  up 
of  the  prisoners.  That  the  benches  in  all  the  day-rooms  and  yards  be 
so  fastened  that  they  cannot  be  pulled  up,  and  that  the  benches  in  the 
yards  be  moved  further  from  the  fence. 

That  the  machine  for  executing  criminals  be  taken  down  after  it  has  been 
used  and  kept  on  the  top  of  the  lodge,  and  that  a  tarpaulin  be  made  to 
preserve  it  from  the  weather. 

The  surveyors  of  St.  Paul's  having  stated  that  to  make  the  arch  in  Well 
Street  and  to  raise  the  road  in  front  of  the  gaol  two  feet  and  to  level 
the  ground  in  front  of  the  gaol  properly  will  be  attended  with  an 
expense  of  50/.,  and  having  proposed  to  do  those  works  for  that  sum 
upon  being  allowed  the  materials  on  the  ground  and  to  take  such  as 
may  be  found  at  the  back  of  the  gaol,  the  committee  have  agreed  with 
the  said  surveyors  that  on  the  above  works  being  conipleted  by  them 
according  to  their  proposal,  that  they  be  allowed  and  paid  the  sum  of 
50/.  instead  of  15/.  as  formerly  proposed,  and  that  they  be  allowed 
such  materials  as  may  be  found  on  the  ground  on  the  outside  of  the 
gaol  wall  towards  completing  the  same. 

The  committee  have  ordered  that  all  the  prisoners  in  the  gaol  and  bridewell 
be  employed  in  such  business  as  they  have  been  accustomed  to  or  in 
beating  hemp,  and  that  the  gaoler  provide  what  is  necessary  for  that 
purpose. 

The  committee  have  also  ordered  that  the  common  sewer  he  continued  down 
King's  Ditch  below  the  last  house  there,  and  that  a  small  branch  of  the 
common  sewer  running  eastward  be  bricked  as  far  as  a  small  wooden 
foot-bridge  there.  That  an  iron  railing  be  fixed  round  the  top  of  the 
turnkey's  lodge,  where  it  is  intended  that  condemned  criminals  shall  in 
future  be  executed.  A  staircase  to  be  made  to  the  top  of  the  lodge, 
instead  of  the  ladder  now  placed  there. 

The  committee  having  taken  into  consideration  the  regulations  proposed  for 
the  management  of  the  gaol,  and  having  made  some  alterations,  which 
appeared  to  the  committee  necessai'y  and  proper,  recommend  that  the 
regulations,  so  altered,  be  adopted. 

121  7th  October.  Certificate  by  Samuel  Whitbread  and  James  Webster, 
justices  of  the  peace,  that  they  have  viewed  a  certain  part  of  the 
ancient  highway  in  the  hamlet  of  Beeston  in  the  i)arish  of  Northill, 
containing  in  length  IGO  perches  and  in  breadth  20  feet,  and  iind  the 
same  has  been  repaired. 


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lOtli  Xovembor.  Conviction  of  James  Oliver,  of  Leighton  Buzzard,  on  122 
the  iiifi»riiialion  of  John  Ireland,  of  Newman  Street,  Marylebone,  gent., 
uniler  the  Act  of  24  Geo.  III.,  for  granting  to  the  King  duties  on 
horses  kept  for  riding  and  drawing  certain  carriages — for  keeping  a 
mare  which  at  Leighton  Buzzard,  he  entered  to  start  and  run  for  a 
plate,  prize,  sum  of  money  or  other  thing,  to  wit,  for  a  saddle  and 
bridle,  and  did  actually  run  the  said  mare  therefor,  he  not  having  paid 
the  duty  of  2/.  2s.  for  the  mare  for  one  year  previous  to  such  starting 
to  the  cltMk  of  the  course,  bookd<eeper,  or  other  person  authorized  to 
receive  it. 

Oliver,  confessing  the  premises,  is  fined  201.,  I'educed  to  10/.,  to  be  divided 
as  the  Act  directs,  and  a  further  sum  of  bj.  5s.  to  Ireland  for  his  costs 
and  charges. 

Same  date.      Similar  conviction  of  James  Outteridge,  of  Luton,  yeoman.       123 

Same  date.     Similar  conviction  of  Thomas  Deverell,  late  of  the  parish  of   124 
Leighton  Buzzard,  gentleman. 

Account    of   William    Clare,   keeper    of   the    house    of    correction  :    Paid    130 
Mr.  Rayment  for  horse  and  cart  when  he  had  Sharman  to  be  publicly 
whipped  at  Biggleswade,  6s.  ;  paid  duty.  Is.  9d.  ;  for  whipping,  5s.,  &c. 

Abstract  of  the  amount  of  the  Treasurer's  disbursements  for  the  county  of    139 
Bedford  for  one  year,  from  Easter  sessions,   1800,  to  Easter  sessions, 
1801. 

Apothecary  to  gaol  and  bridewell,  201.  ;  bridewell,  16H.  15s.  6id. ;  master 
of  bridewell,  20/.  ;  bridges,  190/.  18s.  ;  clerk  of  the  peace,  10/.  ;  cryer 
of  the  court,  3/.  ;  coroners,  38/,  13s.  ;  conveying  to  prison,  37/.  6s.  Id.  ; 
new  county  gaol,  2,000/.  ;  gaol,  255/.  5s.  4|d.  ;  gaoler,  100/.  ;  ditto 
for  transports,  20/.  Is.  ;  disbursed  on  Militia  account,  1,213/.  Is.  3d.  ; 
paid  Minnard  for  his  cottage  as  porter,  45/.  ;  ordinary  of  gaol  and 
bridewell,  40/.  ;  prosecutors  and  witnesses,  78/.  18s.  ;  printing, 
18/.  19s.  ^i\.  ;  returns  of  the  prices  of  corn,  9/.  2s.  ;  sessions  house, 
1  14/.  19s.  3id.  ;  stamps,  2/  2s.  5R  ;  letters  and  parcels,  1/.  5s.  3id.  • 
Treasurer,  20/.  ;  removing  of  baggage,  81/.  9s.  ;  conveying  vagrants, 
125/.  ;  appreliending  ditto,  21.  ;  relieving  ditto,  9/.  17s.  7d.  Total, 
4,618/.   13s.   4kl. 

Quarterly  account  of  John  Howard,  gaoler.  154 

19th  July.  Removing  John  Britton,  charged  with  felony  (he  being  a 
lunatic)  to  Keyston,  Hunts.,  28  miles,  1/,  8s. 

22u(l  July.  By  onler  of  the  surgeon,  sitters  up  with  John  Brown  while 
under  sentence  of  death,  with  beer,  wine,  meat,  broths,  tea,  &c., 
21.  3s.  6d. 

1st  August.  Execution  of  John  Brown  and  William  Pepper;  executioner's 
eating  and  drinking,  burial  fees,  carriers  and  assistants  to  the  grave, 
licer  and  eating,  l8s.  9d. 

14th  September.  Post  chaise  to  Luton  and  expenses  for  publicly  whipping 
William  Bunyan,  3/.  lis. 


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198  Presentment  that  there  is  an  ancient  highway  leading  from  the  village  of 
Copley  to  the  town  of  Biggleywatie,  a  certain  part  wheieof  lying  in  the 
hamlet  of  Beeston  in  the  parish  of  Northill,  containing  in  length 
160  perches  and  in  breadth  20  feet  is  in  decay,  and  that  the 
inhabitants  of  the  parish  of  Beeston  ought  to  repair  the  same. 

200  Presentment  that,  by  an  Act  of  36  Geo.  III.,  intituleil  "  An  Act  for 
dividing  and  allotting  the  common  and  open  tields,  common  meadows, 
commons,  and  waste  lands  within  the  parish  of  Houghton  Regis  in  the 
county  of  Bedford,"  commissioners  were  appointed  to  set  out  all  such 
public  roads  or  highways,  private  roads  an<l  ways  in  ami  over  the  new 
division,  and  allotments  to  be  made  as  the}'  should  think  ht,  and  the 
said  commissioners  were  required  by  writing  under  tlieir  hands  to 
appoint  surveyors  of  the  said  public  roads,  and  such  surveyors  should 
cause  the  same  to  be  performed  and  put  into  good  and  sufficient  repair, 
and  John  Farey  was  appointed  surveyor.  And  that  a  certain  part  of 
the  same  roads  or  highways  in  the  parish  of  Houghton  Regis  so  set 
out  and  appointed  by  the  .said  commissioners,  leading  from  the  village 
of  Houghton  Regis  towards  and  into  the  village  of  Sundon,  lying 
between  a  certain  place  called  Houghton  Gap  and  the  village  of 
Houghton  Regis,  and  containing  in  length  1,400  yards  and  in  breadth 
40  feet.  And  also  a  certain  other  part  of  the  said  roads  or  highways 
in  the  said  parish  of  Houghton  Regis  so  set  out  and  appointed,  leading 
from  the  village  of  Houghton  Regis  towards  the  market  town  of 
Toddington,  lying  between  a  certain  place  called  Bidewell  Wash  Brook 
and  the  boundary  dividing  the  parishes  of  Houghton  Regis  and 
Chalgrave,  and  containing  in  length  1000  yards  and  in  breadth  40  feet 
— are  very  ruinous  for  want  of  being  completely  formed,  made  good 
and  repaired. 

-01    5th  May.     Letter  from  George  Cloake  to  the  justices  of  the  peace. 

I  have  examined  the  several  works  done  in  building  the  county  gaol,  and 
compared  them  with  the  descriptive  particular  made  out  for  the 
execution  and  performance  of  the  same.  I  find  some  things  not  done 
— the  iron  bars  to  stairs  of  lodge ;  the  turnstiles ;  the  lead  and 
blocking  to  flat  of  lodge  want  setting  to  rights  ;  the  painting  and 
whitewashing  to  be  finished  ;  but  I  should  advise  them  U)  be  left  for 
a  month  as  the  gaol  is  not  in  a  fit  state  to  do  them,  the  Avails  not 
being  sufficiently  dry.  It  would  be  of  great  service  were  every 
aperture  that  has  glass  every  day  kept  open.  I  think  the  gaol,  with 
such  due  attention,  might  be  fit  to  receive  prisoners  in  six  weeks. 
Where  there  are  grates  fixed  fires  would  be  of  service. 

In  respect  to  the  works,  the  contractor  has  done  his  duty  strictly  and 
beyond  what  might  have  been  expected,  under  the  nature  of  the 
particulars.  I  must  add  also  that  he  has  made  the  lower  passages  five 
feet  instead  of  four  feet  six  inches  wide,  and  the  inner  wails  two 
bricks  thick  instead  of  1-^  brick  thick,  and  it  is  as  well  he  has  done 
so,  as  I  think  that  thickness  would  not  have  been  sufficient  to  have 
received  the  arches. 

205   Various  copies  of  the  "  London  Gazette  "  and  the  "  Northampton  Mercury." 


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l802. 


13th  January.     Order  at  quarter  sessions  that  all  the  poorhouses  belonging    \  and  2 
to  the  parish  of  Langford  be  properly  repaired,  paved,   whitewashed, 
glazed  with  casements  made  to  open  for  the  purpose  of  ventilation  ; 
the  ground  about  them  drained  so  as  to  prevent  the  floors  being  damp, 
and  a  stagnation  of  water  in  their  neighbourhood. 

The  court  confirms  the  order  of  the  justices  for  the  repair  of  the  workhouse 
and  provision  of  furniture  and  apparel  for  the  paupers  inhabiting  the 
said  workhouse,  and  strongly  enjoins  it  to  the  parish  officers  of  the 
said  j)arish  to  pay  more  strict  attention  to  the  situation  and  necessities 
of  the  poor  in  order  to  eradicate  the  present  contagion,  to  prevent  its 
recurrence,  and  to  rescue  themselves  from  the  disgrace  of  a  system  of 
management  so  cruel  and  oppressive  to  the  poor  and  so  burthensome 
and  unsatisfactory  to  those  who  contribute  to  their  relief. 

Tlie  court  further  orders  that  tlie  parish  officers  shall  attend  at  the  next 
general  quarter  sessions  of  the  peace  to  report  upon  the  then  state  and 
condition  of  the  poor. 

13th  January.     Order  at  quarter  sessions,  that  the  parish  officers  of  the   3  and  3a 
parish  of  Houghton  Conquest  do  forthwith  put  the  poorhouses  of  the 
said     parish    in    a    state    of   repair    in    every    respect    fit    for    human 
habitation,  and  do  attend  at  the  next  general  sessions  of  the  peace  to 
)-eport  upon  the  then  state  and  condition  thereof. 

13th  January.     Order  at  quarter  sessions,  that  the  parish  officers  of  the   4 
parisli    of    Hawnes    do    forthwith  cause  the  different  poorhouses  and 
workhouses  of  the  saiil  parish  to  be  put  in  repair  and  made  in  every 
respect  fit  for  habitation. 

To  provide  clothes  for  the  pauprfrs  in  the  workhouse,  bedsteads  and 
bedding,  with  a  change  of  linen  for  each  bed,  tables,  forms,  wooden 
bowls  and  platters  with  wooden  spoons,  and  a  sufficient  quantity  of 
fuel  for  their  use. 

The  court  further  orders  the  parish  officers  of  the  said  parish  to  attend  at 
the  next  general  quarter  sessions  of  the  peace  with  a  detailed  account 
of  their  proceedings  under  this  order. 

2lKt  April.  Order  by  Samuel  Whitbread  and  James  Osborn  (who  viewed  6 
the  several  highways  described  in  the  plan  annexed,  and  made  an  order 
for  diverting  the  old  highways,  and  being  satisfied  that  the  new 
highway  therein  described  is  properly  made),  that  the  said  old 
highways,  that  is  to  say,  the  old  highway  in  the  parish  of  Warden, 
lying  between  Biggleswade  and  the  village  of  Warden,  beginning  at 
or  near  a  certain  place  called  Doolittle  Mills  in  the  parish  of  Warden, 
and  leading  tlience  through  the  grounds  of  Lord  (Jngley,  of  Old 
Warden,  on  both  .sides  thereof,  except  a  very  small  part  of  the  south 
side  thereof  next  the  village  of  Warden,  which  adjoins  to  and  passes 
by  grounds  belonging  to  the  Marquis  of  Exeter,  in  the  tenure  of 
the  said  Lord  Ongley,  until  it  joins  with  the  village  of  Warden,  being 


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of  the  length  of  one  mile,  two  luilongs,  and  one  pole,  and  of  the 
breadth  of  20  feet  "  upon  a  medium."  And  also  the  old  highway  in 
the  parish  of  Warden,  lying  between  the  hamlet  of  Ickwell  in  the 
parish  of  Northill  and  the  village  of  Southill,  l)egitniing  at  or  near  the 
north  side  of  a  certain  close  in  the  parish  of  Warden,  formerly  called 
Stonehills  and  now  called  Dog  Kennel  Close,  belonging  to  the  said 
Lord  Ongley,  and  leading  thence  tlirough  grounds  belonging  to  the 
said  Lord  Ongley  on  both  sides  thereof,  unto  and  counnunicating  with 
the  aforesaid  highway  lying  between  Biggleswade  and  Warden,  and 
leading  by,  through,  and  alonu'  a  part  of  that  highway  to  and  towards 
the  north-east  corner  of  certain  other  grounds  of  and  belonging  to 
Lord  Ongley  called  Warden  Warren,  and  thence  through  grounds 
belonging  to  Lord  Ongley  on  both  sides  thereof,  to  and  into  a  certain 
other  highway  in  the  parish  of  Southill,  at  or  near  certain  cottages 
there,  called  the  (church  Houses,  for  the  length  of  one  mile  and 
37  poles,  and  of  the  breadth  of  20  feet,  "  upon  a  medium,"  as  appears 
by  the  said  plan — be  stopped  up. 

It  also  appearing  to  the  said  justices  that  a  certain  highway  in  the  parish 
of  Warden  lying  between  the  said  place  called  Doolittle  Mills  and  the 
village  of  Southill,  being  so  much  of  the  said  highway  first  described 
and  ordered  to  be  stopped  up  as  lies  between  the  aforesaid  place  called 
Doolittle  Mills,  and  the  place  where  it  joins  and  communicates  with 
the  saiil  highway  secondly  above  described  and  also  ordered  to  be 
stopped  up,  and  also  so  much  of  the  last  mentioned  highway  as  extends 
thence  to  the  other  highway  in  the  parish  of  Southill  at  or  near  the 
said  cottages  called  Church  Houses  for  the  length  of  one  mile,  four 
furlongs,  24  poles  ;  and  also  that  a  certain  highway  in  the  parish  of 
Warden  lying  between  the  aforesaid  place  called  Doolittle  Mills  and 
the  village  of  Ickwell,  being  so  much  of  the  highway  first  above 
described  as  lies  between  the  said  place  called  Doolittle  Mills  and  the 
place  where  it  joins  and  communicates  with  the  other  highway  secondly 
above  described,  and  also  so  much  of  the  last  mentioned  highway  as 
extends  thence  to  the  said  new  highway  for  the  length  of  six  furlongs 
and  28  poles.  And  also  that  a  certain  other  highway  in  the  parish  of 
Warden  lying  between  the  hamlet  of  Ickwell  and  the  village  of 
Warden,  being  so  much  of  the  said  highway  secondly  above  described  as 
lies  between  and  beginning  at  or  near  the  north  side  of  the  aforesaid 
close  in  the  parish  of  Warden  called  Stonehills,  and  the  place  where 
it  joins  and  communicates  with  the  other  highway  first  above 
described  ;  and  also  so  much  of  that  highv/ay  as  extends  thence  to  the 
village  of  Warden  for  the  length  of  six  furlongs  and  20  poles — are 
respectively  unnecessary,  and  may  be  diverted  and  turned  into  the 
said  new  highway,  and  the  charge  of  repairing  thereof  be  saved  to  the 
parish  of  Warden. 

And  also  that  a  certain  highway  in  the  parish  of  Warden  lying  between  the 
village  of  Warden  and  the  village  of  Southill,  being  so  much  of  the 
said  highway  first  above  described  as  lies  between  the  village  of 
Warden  and  the  place  where  it  joins  and  communicates  with  the  other 
highway  secomlly  above  described  ;  and  also  so  much  of  that  highway 
as  extends  thence  to  the  place  where  it  joins  and  communicates  witli 
the  said  other  highway  in  tln^  parish  of  Southill  for  the  length  of  seven 
furlongs  and  12  poles  is  also  unnecessary,  and  niay,  by  stopping  up  the 


same,  be  diverted  and  turned  into  a  certain  other  old  hi^^hway  lying 
between  the  viHage  of  Warden  ami  the  village  of  iSouthill,  also 
described  in  the  said  plan,  and  the  charge  of  re[)airing  thereof  be  saved 
to  the  parish  of  Warden.  They  also  order  that  the  said  other 
highways,  so  appearing  to  be  unnecessary  be  stopped  up,  and  the  land 
and  soil  thereof  be  vested  in  the  said  Lord  Ongley. 

Plan  mentioned  above.  7 

Another  plan,  apparently  connected  with  the  foregoing.  ° 

8th    September.     The    magistrates    assembled    at    their    petty    sessions    at    13 
Biggleswade  directed  the  following  report  to  be  made  to  the  justices 
assembled  at  their  next  general  quarter  sessions  of   the   i)eace  for  the 
county  of  Bedford  :  — 

That  in  pursuance  of  the  several  statutes  in  that  case  made  and  provided, 
the  magistrates  a[ipointed  Dingley  (larrard,  of  Bedford,  inspector  of 
weights  and  measures  for  the  hundreds  of  Biggleswade,  Clifton  and 
Wixamtree. 

That  upon  the  information  of  the  said  inspector  they  have  convicted  87 
persons  within  the  said  hundreds  for  having  in  their  possession  false 
weights,  balances,  and  measures. 

That  as  it  did  not  appear  a  similar  inspection  had  ever  before  been  made 
within  the  said  district,  the  magistrates,  presuming  ignorance  in  all 
such  persons  against  whom  such  informations  were  exhibited,  fined, 
each  in  the  lowest  penalties  allowable  by  law  and  took  away  the 
defective  balance;*,  weights,  and  measures. 

That  the  tines,  together  with  the  sale  of  the  articles,  have  produced  a  gross 
sum  of  56/.  8s.  8id. 

That  the  expenses  attending  the  inspection  have  amounted  to  23/.  16s.  9d., 
and  there  remains  to  be  paid  into  the  hamls  of  the  treasurer  of  the 
county  the  sum  of  32/.    lis.    Hid. 

The  magistrates  take  o(;casion  to  give  the  public  notice,  that,  as  it  will  be 
imi)0ssible  for  the  inhabitants  of  the  said  hundreds  to  plead  ignorance 
in  any  future  case  of  delinquency,  they  shall  think  it  their  duty  to 
publish  the  names  of  all  persons  hereafter  convicted  before  them  for 
having  in  their  possession  false  weights,  balances,  and  measures. 

12th  November.  Information  of  Thomas  Woodard,  of  Battlesden,  servant.  70 
That  on  12th  Xoveml)er,  being  in  the  Cow  Fair  at  Dunstable  on 
business,  he  saw  John  Baldwin,  witli  other  persons,  playing  at  an 
unlawful  game,  called  "Pricking  in  the  Belt  or  Garter,"  and  through 
the  persuasions  of  the  said  Baldwin  informant  did  bet  two  guineas 
which  he  paid  to  the  said  Baldwin.  He  aftcu'wards  bet  two  guineas 
more  whicii  he  also  paid  to  the  said  Baldwin.  That  immediately  on 
losing  the  last  two  guineas,  prisoner  Baldwin  and  his  companions  took 
up  their  stool  or  table  with  their  garter  or  belt  and  wiMit  away,  and 
informant   went  to  an  inn  in  Dunstable,    where   his   master,   Captain 


u 


Moore,  was,  and  informed  hira  of  what  bad  happened.  He  attended 
his  roaster  and  the  constable  to  search  for  the  prisoner  and  found  him 
and  a  party  with  a  table  and  a  belt  or  garter,  and  the  said  Baldwin  was 
then  in  the  act  of  drawing  the  said  belt  or  garter. 


72  20th  December.  Information  of  Mary  Hawkins,  of  Cadingtou.  That 
having  sold  some  straw  plait  to  Mr.  James  Eutttield,  she  went  to  a 
public  house  at  Luton  to  receive  her  money,  and  whilst  she  was  in  the 
parlour  where  Mr.  Butttield  was  paying  for  several  parcels  of  plait 
which  he  had  purchased,  she  saw  Sarah  Mardle  take  a  parcel  of  plait 
from  the  table,  put  it  under  her  cloak,  and  take  it  out  of  the  house. 


73  Information  of  George  King,  one  of  the  constables  of  the  township  of 
Luton.  That  whilst  Sarah  Mardle  was  in  his  custody  she  said  that 
Mr.  Buttfield's  plait  was  under  a  stall  on  which  hog  puddings  were  sold. 


76  15th  April.  Certificate  by  Samuel  Wiiitbread  and  Robert  Hele  Selby 
Helliy,  clerk,  justices  of  the  peace,  that  the  windmill  which  was 
erected  near  a  certain  road  or  highway  leading  from  Bedford  to 
Kimbolton,  co.  Huntingdon,  and  for  the  erecting  and  continuing  of 
which  John  Carrington,  of  St.  Paul's,  Bedford,  was  indicted  and 
pleaded  guilty,  is  taken  down  and  removed. 


77  17th  April.  Certificate  by  Alexander  Wallace,  surveyor  of  the  public 
carriage  roads  through  the  new  enclosures  in  the  lordship  of  Toddington 
and  hamlet  of  Chalton  in  the  parish  of  Toddington,  appointed  by  the 
commissioners  under  the  Act  of  37  George  III.,  fur  dividing  and 
enclosing  the  open  and  common  fields,  meadows,  commons,  and  waste 
grounds  in  the  lordship  of  Toddington  and  hamlet  of  Chalton  in  the 
parish  of  Toddington,  that  the  said  roads  are  now  in  good  repair. 


80  llih  April.  Certificate  by  F.  Hewes,  minister,  James  Kushmore,  James 
Field,  Joseph  Hagger,  Samuel  Field,  Samuel  Field,  junior,  JohuTeddey, 
Stephen  Taylor,  Samuel  Gatward,  Samuel  Rudd,  Caleb  Young,  and 
Seabrook  Hill,  that  the  new  erecting  edifice  or  building  called  the 
Meeting  House,  situate  in  Rosemary  lane  in  Luton  aforesaid,  is 
intended  to  be  henceforth  used  by  them  anil  others,  protestaut 
dissenters  from  the  Church  of  England,  as  a  place  for  divine  worship. 


14th  April.  Certificate  by  F.  Hewes,  minister,  James  Fowler,  Elizabeth 
Fowler,  Juhn  lloUlstock,  Mary  Holdslock,  John  Spring,  Richard 
Marting,  Henry  Dale,  Saiah  Dale,  Hannah  Kiiigham,  Ann  JIall worth, 
William  Fowler,  and  Hannah  Fowler,  that  the  dwelling  house  of 
John  Hi)ldst()ck,  the  proi)erty  of  James  Fowler,  situate  in  Toddington, 
is  intended  to  be  used  by  them  and  others,  protestaut  dissenters  from 
the  Church  of  England,  as  a  place  for  divine  worship. 


r)5 

27th  April.  Certificate  Ijy  Alexander  "Wallace,  surveyor  of  the  puV»lic  82 
carria<,'e  roads  through  the  new  enclosures  in  the  parish  of  Toddin^ton 
and  hamlet  of  Chalton  in  the  parish  of  Toddinyton,  appointed  l^y  the 
coinmissioners  under  the  Act  of  37  Geo.  III.,  for  dividing  and  enclosing 
the  open  and  common  Hekls,  meadows,  commons,  and  waste  grounds  in 
the  lordship  of  Toddington  and  hamlet  of  Chalton — that  all  the  said 
roads  set  out  by  the  said  commissioners  are  in  good  and  sufficient  repair. 

28th  April.     Certificate  by  Philip  Monoux  and   Francis  Pym,  that  the   83 
roads  and  highways  over  the  lands  and  grounds  directeil  to  be  divided 
and  enclosed,  by  an  Act  of  38  Geo.  III.  for  dividing  and  enclosing  the 
several  open  and  common  fields,   meadows,   pastures,   warrens,  &c.,  in 
the  parish  of  Sandy,  are  completely  formed  and  made  good. 

4th  October.     Certificate  by  Wollaston  Pym  and  Francis  Pym,  justices  of  85 
the  peace,  that  they  have  viewed  that  part  of  the  highway  leading  from 
the  High  Nortli  Road   towards  and   unto  the  town   of  L)unton,   which 
lies  in  the  parish  of  Pldworth,  which  now  stands  indicted  as  being  out 
of  repair,  and  find  the  same  is  now  in  good  and  sufficient  repair. 

Gaoler's  certificate.  86 


Militia  returns. 


87 


Letter  by  F.   Hewes,   minister,  James   Kushmore,  Samuel   Gatward,  Jolin    89 
Teddey,  Joseph  Hagger,  George  Brett,  Samuel  Rutt,  J.   Field,  Samuel 
Field,  and  Seabrook  Hill,  to  Mr.   JMega  (?),   requesting  him   to  register 
the  estate  of  Mr.  Rushmore,  of  Luton,  situate  in  Luton,  consisting  of 
three  tenements  joining  and  a  yard,  designed  as  a  place  of  worship. 

Account  of  John  Howard,  gaoler  : — Finding  William  Potts,  in  a  dangerous  103 
fever,  jjort  wine,  16  bottles,  and  one  pint  ponadoes  and  brandy,  mutton 
and  broths,  nurse  and  glysters,  for  six  weeks,  8/.  5s.  ;  to  board  and  ale 
after  the  fever  for  two  weeks,  17s.  6d.  Finding  Thfimas  Fdwin 
poultices  twice  per  day  for  six  weeks,  1/.  4s.  ;  also  finding  him  port 
wine,  eight  bottles,  ponadoes,  broths,  teas,  and  nourisliments,  with 
nur.se,  &c.,  until  his  ileath,  II.  4s.  Finding  George  Saby,  wine,  whey, 
ponadoes  and  other  nourishment,  16s.  6d.  Finding  William  Tysoe  aiid 
Thomas  Roberts  ponadoes,  nourishments  (?),  nurses,  driid<,  oil,  vinegar, 
and  fumigating  lamp  used  in  the  infirmary,  9s. 

Gaoler's  account:— To  whipping  David   Johnson  at  I'.edford,  10s.  6d.  ;    137 
to  {)risoners'  shaving  and  hair  cutting,  lOs.  ijd. 

Presentment  that  there  is  an  ancient  highway  leading  from  the  village  of    150 
Langford    towards    and    unto   the    village    of    Dunton,    a   ceitainpart 
whereof,  lying  in   the  parish  of  Fdworth,   containing  in  length   2,520 
yards  and  in   breadth    16  yards  and  a   half,  is  in  dec;iy,  and  that  the 
inhabitants  of  the  parish  of  Edworth  ought  to  repair  the  same. 


153  23i\l  July.  Application  hy  "William  Tnski]),  one  of  the  surveyors  of  the 
highways  of  the  parish  of  Northill.  to  Samuel  Whitbread,  Esq.,  and 
James  Webster,  clerk.  He  states  that  there  is  a  common  highway 
leailiiig  from  Biggleswade  Bridge  to  Olil  Warden,  a  certain  part 
whereof,  that  is  to  say,  so  much  as  lies  between  Biggleswade  Bridge 
ami  Doolittle  Mills,  being  in  length  one  mile,  six  furlongs,  four  poles, 
one  side  of  which  last  mentioned  part  of  the  said  highway,  adjoining 
to  the  parish  of  Northill,  lies  within  the  parish  of  Northill,  and  ought 
to  be  repaired  by  the  said  parish,  and  the  other  part  of  the  same 
highway,  adjoining  the  parish  of  Old  Warden,  lies  within  the  parish 
of  Old  Warden,  and  ought  to  be  repaired  by  that  parish.  He  states 
that  the  want  of  repair  of  the  saiil  highway  is  very  detrimental  to  the 
said  parishes.  He  therefore  prays  that  such  part  of  the  said  highwaj' 
may  be  allotted  to  the  parishes  of  Xorthill  and  Old  Warden  to  repair, 

156  Indictment  of  John  Covington,  of  St.  Peter's,  Bedford,  yeoman,  for 
erecting  in  the  parish  of  Kavensden  two  windmills  near  a  certain 
road  and  common  highway  leading  from  Bedford  to  Kimbolton, 
CO.  Huntingdon,  and  therel^y  obstructing  the  King's  subjects  from 
passing  with  their  carriages,  carts,  &c. 

159  Indictment  of  Rebecca  Peppets,  widow,  and  Susannah  White,  spinster, 
both  tif  tlie  parish  of  Yielding,  for  falsely  pretending  to  John  Kobbins 
that  the  said  Rebecca  Peppets'  name  was  Susannah  Brown,  and  the 
said  Susannah  White's  name  was  Ann  Brown,  and  that  they  were 
sisters  and  followed  the  occupation  cf  lace  making  at  the  parish  of 
Swineshead,  co.  Huntingdon,  and  that  their  residence  was  at 
Swineshead,  whereas  they  were  not  sisters,  and  did  not  follow  the 
trade  of  lace  making  at  Swineshead.  And  also  fur  obtaining  goods 
from  the  said  John  Kobbins  of  the  value  of  40s, 


1803. 

3  15th  February.  Order  reciting  that  Samuel  Whitbread,  justice  of  the 
peace,  has  visited  the  poorhonses  of  the  parish  of  Stottield,  and  has 
found  them  to  be  dark,  conHned,  and  in  a  ruinous  state,  without  floors 
and  windows,  and  in  every  other  respect  totally  unfit  for  human 
habitation  ;  the  poor  ill  clothed  and  some  of  them  out  of  health, 
improvided  with  iDedding  of  any  description,  and  totally  destitute  of 
all  furniture  or  necessary  articles  for  the  prepaiation  of    their    food. 

The  said  Samuel  Whitbread  and  James  Webster,  justices  of  the  peace,  now 
order  that  the  overseers  of  the  poor  of  the  said  parish  do  forthwith  put 
the  said  poorhonses  into  a  state  of  tenable  repair,  pave  the  Moors,  glaze 
the  windows,  and  whitewash  the  walls  and  ceilings.  They  are  also  to 
make  such  separations  within  as  may  be  necessary  for  the  sake  of 
decency,  to  separate  the  ditfercnt  inliahitants  from  each  other,  and  to 
make  the  said  houses  in  eveiy  respect' fit  for  human  haliitation.  To 
provide  [)roper  V)edsteads,  bedding,  covering,  and  linen  for  the  use  of 
the  paupers  who  inhabit  the  said  houses,  and  proper  furniture  for  the 
preparation  of  their  food. 


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12th  March.  Order  by  Samuel  Whitbread,  that  tlie  overseers  of  the  poor  4 
of  the  parish  of  Arlsey  do  forthwith  repair  and  put  in  a  fit  state  for  human 
habitation  all  the  poorhouses  of  the  said  parish.  That  ihey  repair  the 
thatch,  mend  the  windows,  whitewash  the  walls,  and  make  proper 
separations  for  the  decent  accommodation  of  the  inhabitants.  Also  to 
provide  bedsteads  and  bedding,  linen  of  every  description,  and  proper 
utensils  for  the  preparation  of  their  food. 

And  whereas  in  one  of  the  said  poorhouses  there  are  three  aged  widows,  one 
of  whom  is  exceedingly  infirm  and  afflicted  with  sickness,  they  further 
order  the  said  overseers  to  provide  a  suitable  attendant  to  take  care  of 
the  said  sick  person,  and  to  provide  such  medicine  and  nourishment  as 
her  situation  appears  to  require. 

They  further  order  the  said  overseers  to  appear  at  the  next  general  quarter 
sessions  to  be  held  at  Bedford,  to  answer  for  what  they  shall  do 
in  the  premises. 

15th  April.     Order  by  Edward   Tanqueray    and    William   Mead,    clerks,    5 
justices  of  the  peace. 

That  having  upon  view  found  that  certain  parts  of  the  highway  between  the 
town  of  Leighton  and  the  town  of  Hockliffe,  in  the  township  of 
Leighton  for  the  length  of  930  yards  or  thereabouts,  particularly 
described  in  the  plan  annexed,  is  for  a  part  thereof  narrow  and  cannot 
be  conveniently  enlarged  and  made  commodious  for  travellers  without 
widening,  diverting  and  turning  the  same  ;  and  having  viewed  a  course 
proposed  for  the  new  highway  through  the  lands  and  grounds  of  the 
several  persons  hereafter  named  for  widening  the  said  highway  from 
the  point  marked  in  the  said  plan  S,  16  yards  or  thereabouts,  being  the 
lauds  or  grounds  of  Thomas  White,  of  Leigliton,  butcher,  and  through 
the  lands  or  grounds  of  Thomas  Chew,  of  Leighton,  at  the  parts  in  the 
phin  marked  r,  being  168  yards  or  thereabouts,  then  from  the  point  in 
the  plan  marked  P,  to  be  diverted  and  turned  through  the  lands  and 
grouutls  of  Jolm  Owen  Stubb,  John  Millard,  Arthur  Clark,  Esq.,  Ann 
Ashwell,  John  Franklin  and  William  Claridge,  to  the  tvvo  points  in 
the  plan  marked  d  and  e,  being  200  yards  or  thereabouts,  then 
continuing  the  highway  as  it  now  is  to  the  point  in  the  plan  marked  /, 
there  to  be  diverted  and  turned  through  the  lands  and  grounds  of 
Ann  Ashwell,  William  Claridge,  Francis  Hart,  William  Collins,  John 
Collins  Millard,  and  John  Owen  Stubb,  and  crossing  the  brook  at  g,  to 
extend  to  the  point  marked  //,  being  166  yards  or  thereabouts,  and  at 
the  said  point  to  come  into  the  present  road,  particularly  described  in 
the  plan  annexed. 

They  also  order  that  the  said  highway  be  widened,  diverted  and  turned 
through  the  lands  and  grounds  aforesaid,  and  that  the  surveyor  of  the 
highways  of  the  township  of  Leighton,  where  the  said  old  higlnvay 
lies,  do  forthwith  proceed  to  treat  and  make  agreement  with  the  said 
persons  for  recompense  to  be  made  for  the  said  lands  and  grounds,  and 
for  making  such  ditches  and  fences  as  shall  be  necessary,  in  such 
manner  as  is  prescribed  by  the  statute  of  13  George  111.  for  the 
amendment  and  preservatiou  of  the  highways. 


98 

And  in  case  such  agreement  shall  be  made,  they  order  an  equal  assessment, 
not  exceeding  the  rate  of  6d.  in  the  pound,  to  he  made,  levied,  and 
collected  upon  all  the  occupiers  of  lands,  tenements,  woods,  tithes,  and 
hereditaments  in  the  township  of  Leighton,  and  that  the  money  arising 
thereupon  be  paid  and  applied  in  making  such  recompense  and  satis- 
faction as  aforesaid,  pursuant  to  the  directions  of  the  said  Act. 

6    Plan  mentioned  in  the  foregoing. 

8  3rd  July.     Notice  by  Edmund  Thorn- — the  surveyor  appointed  for  making 

and  completing  certain  roads  in  the  parish  of  Houghton  Regis  under 
an  Act  passed  in  the  43rd  year  of  the  reign  of  Geo.  III.,  intituled  "An 
Act  to  alter  and  amend  an  Act  passed  in  the  36th  year  of  the  same 
reign,  intituled  An  Act  for  dividing  and  allotting  the  open  and  common 
fields,  common  meadows,  commons  and  waste  lands  in  the  parish  of 
Houghton  Regis,  and  to  give  powers  for  making  and  completing  certain 
roads" — that  he  intends  at  the  next  general  quarter  sessions  of  the 
peace  to  certify  the  Sundon  Road  and  the  road  commonly  called 
Mixt  Way. 

9  22nd  July.     Order  by  Samuel  Whitbread,  Esq.,  and  James  "Webster,  clerk, 

justices  of  the  peace,  that  Francis  Browne  and  Edward  Slarkie, 
overseers  of  the  poor  of  the  parish  of  Maulden,  do  immediately  give 
directions  that  the  ten  parish  houses  provided  for  the  maintenance  of 
the  poor  of  the  said  parish  be  put  into  a  proper  state  of  repair  with 
regard  to  the  windows,  floors,  walls  and  thatching,  and  that  they  be 
whitewashed  within  and  without ;  and  that  proper  bedsteads,  bedding, 
blankets,  sheets,  coverings,  and  other  furniture  such  as  is  proper  and 
necessary,  be  provided  for  the  said  houses. 

54  20th  April.     Certificate  by  Edward  Tanqueray,  clerk,  and  William  Mead, 

clerk,  that  having  viewed  a  certain  highway  leading  through  the  [jarish 
of  AVoljurn,  being  the  turnpike  road  (which  highway  was  out  of  repair, 
for  which  the  inhabitants  of  the  said  parish  were  indicted)  they  find 
the  said  highway  is  now  in  good  and  substantial  repair. 

55  12th  January.     Certificate  by  the  said  Edward  Tanqueray  and   William 

Mead,  that  they  have  viewed  a  certain  part  of  the  highway  in  the 
parish  of  Potgrove,  otherwise  Potsgrove,  beginning  at  a  distance  of 
1100  yards  from  the  40th  milestone  from  London  and  between  that 
stone  ami  the  4lst  milestone,  and  ending  at  the  distance  of  1 180  yards 
from  the  first  mentioned  milestone  and  the  41st  milestone  from 
London,  containing  in  length  80  yards  and  in  breadth  10  yards,  and 
lind  the  same  is  repaired  and  amended. 

58  15th  INIarch.  Certificate  by  Francis  Coupees,  John  Crew,  William 
Puttcrlield,  -lohn  Day,  Thomas  Johnson  and  William  Coupees,  that  a 
building  called  or  known  by  the  name  of  the  Press  House,  in  the 
occupation  of  Mr.  Francis  Coupees,  straw  hat  manufacturer,  situate  in 
the  ])aiish  of  Luton,  is  intended  to  be  used  as  a  place  of  religious 
worship  for  protestant  subjects  dissenting  from  the  Church  of  England. 


99 

20th  April.  Certificate  by  Thomas  Wingrove,  John  jSTewman,  William  59 
Have,  John  Abbott,  James  Pryor  junior,  and  Joseph  Jackson,  that  the 
dwelling  house  of  Thomas  Wingrove,  labourer,  situate  at  Ramoridge 
End  in  tlie  parish  of  Luton,  is  intended  to  be  used  as  a  place  of 
religious  worship  for  his  Majesty's  protestant  subjects  dissenting  from 
the  Church  of  England. 


20th  April.     Certificate  by  John  Hawkins  and  James  Webster,  that  they    63 
have  viewed  a  certain  part  of  the  common  and  ancient  highway  situate 
in  the  parish  of  Barton  in  the  Clay,  containing  in  length  250  yards  and 
in   breadth  five  yards,   and  that   the   same    is   well   and    sufficiently 
repaired. 

13th  July.  Certificate  by  Edmund  Thorn — yeoman,  surveyor  appointed  64 
under  an  Act  intituled  "  An  Act  to  alter  and  amend  an  Act  passed  in 
the  36th  year  of  the  reign  of  his  present  Majesty,  intituled  An  Act  for 
dividing  and  allotting  the  open  and  common  fields,  common  meadows, 
commons  and  waste  lands  within  the  parish  of  Houghton  Regis  in  the 
county  of  Bedford,  and  to  give  powers  for  the  making  and  completing 
of  certain  roads  set  out  by  the  commissioners  acting  under  and  by 
virtue  of  the  said  Act" — that  a  certain  road  in  the  said  Act  mentioned, 
called  the  Mixt  Way,  and  a  certain  other  road  in  the  said  Act 
mentioned  called  the  Sundon  Road,  are  now  completed  and  put  into 
good  and  sufficient  repair. 


13th  July.  Certificate  by  John  Hawkins  and  James  Webster,  that  they  65 
have  viewed  a  certain  part  of  the  common  highway,  commonly  called 
Upper  Gravenhurst  Lane  situate  in  the  parish  of  Upper  Gravenhurst, 
to  a  bridge  near  Shitlington  Mill,  containing  in  length  680  yards  and 
in  breadth  about  40  feet,  and  that  the  same  is  completely  repaired  and 
amended. 


12th  July.  Certificate  by  John  Long,  of  Eenny  Stratford,  co.  Bucks. —  66 
surveyor  of  the  public  carriage  roads  in  the  parish  of  Crawley, 
otherwise  Husborn  Crawley,  co.  Beds.,  appointed  by  the  commissioners 
nominated  for  putting  into  execution  an  Act  of  35  Geo.  III.,  intituled 
*'  An  Act  for  dividing  and  enclosing  the  common  and  open  fields, 
common  meadows,  common  moors,  commons  and  waste  lands  within 
the  parish  of  Crawley,  otherwise  Husborn  Crawley,  in  the  county  of 
Bedford " — that  the  ])ublic  carriage  roads  set  out  by  the  said 
commissioners  in  the  said  parish,  according  to  the  directions  of  the 
said  Act,  are  completely  formed  and  made  good. 

13th  July.  Certificate  by  Francis  Coupees,  Thomas  Coupees,  Ann  67 
Cuupees,  Joseph  Jackson,  Elizabeth  Jackson,  William  Butterfield, 
Ueborah  Butter  Held,  John  Day,  Sarah  Day  and  James  Pryor,  that  the 
New  Meeting  House  in  the  parish  of  Luton  is  intended  to  be  used  as 
a  place  of  religious  worship  for  his  Majesty's  protestant  subjects 
dissenting  from  the  Church  of  England. 


100 

68  22nJ  Septeraher.     Notice  by  John  Ladds,  surveyor  of  the  pi;blic  carriage 

roads  set  out  by  the  conimissioners  of  the  Wrestlingworth  Enclosure 
that  he  intends  to  certify  to  the  justices  that  the  roads  have  been 
completely  formed. 

69  5th    October.     Certificate    by    the    said    John    Ladds   that   the   above 

mentioned  roads  have  been  completed. 

70  5th  October.     Certificate  by  Edmund  Thorn,  yeoman,  surveyor  under  the 

Act  of  .36  Geo.  III.,  for  dividing  and  allotting  tlie  common  and  open 
fields,  &c.,  in  the  parish  of  Houghton  Kegis,  and  to  give  powers  for 
making  certain  roads — that  a  certain  road  called  the  Toddington  and 
Bedford  Road  is  completed. 

71  Gaoler's  return. 

72  25th   December  (sic).     A    return   of  the  Bedfordshire  Militia,   now   on 

actual  .service,  the  original  establishment  having  been  embodied  at 
Bedford  on  25th  March  last.     It  consisted  of  505  officers  and  men. 

Memorandum  : — Wanting  to  complete  the  battalion — one  lieutenant,  two 
ensigns,  and  59  privates. 

85  Epiphany  sessions.  Gaoler's  quarterly  account  : — To  privately 
whipping  William  Massey,  William  Foxon,  and  Thomas  Allen,  15s., 
&c.,  &c. 

87  Easter  sessions.  The  like  : — To  providing  sick  prisoners  with  mutton  and 
broth,  ponadoes,  beer  and  other  nourishments,  &c.,  &c. 

93  Abstract  of  the  Treasurer's  disbursements  for  the  county  for  one  year, 
beginning  at  Easter  sessions,  1802  : — 

Apothecary  to  gaol  and  bridewell,  25Z.  Bridewell,  63Z.  16s.  9|d.  Master 
of  bridewell,  20/.  Bridges,  14s.  5d.  Clerk  of  peace,  10/.  Crier  of 
the  court,  3/.  Coroners,  50/.  10s.  9d.  Conveying  to  prison, 
24/.  10s.  3d.  New  County  Gaol,  2,234/.  8s.  9d.  Gaoler,  190/.  Ditto 
for  transports,  27/.  Os.  6d.  Cottages,  117/.  Disbursed  on  militia 
account,  476/.  3s.  6d.  Ordinary  of  gaol  and  bridewell,  40/..  Prosecutors 
and  witnesses,  93/.  Os.  4d.  Printing,  16/.  Os.  4d.  Keturns  of  the 
prices  of  corn,  12/.  16s.  Kemoving  of  baggages,  69/.  lOs.  Sessions 
House.  25/.  lis.  5^d.  Stamps,  1/.  19s.  2id.  Constables'  fees  for 
taking  an  account  of  the  population  of  Great  Britain,  41/.  4s.  6d. 
Treasurer,  20/.  Letters  and  parcels,  1/.  lis.  7d.  Conveying  vagrants, 
130/.  Relieving  same,  16/.  Is.  Id.  Due  to  the  Treasurer  last  sessions, 
580/.  8s.  5d. 

96    Midsummer  sessions.     Gaoler's  quarterly  account : — To  removing  and 

delivering  on  board  the  Capfinifi/  hulk,  lying  in  Portsmouth  harbour, 
William  Tysoe,  James  Albone,  Samuel  Mason,  John  Squires,  Charles 
Williams  and  George  Roberts,  30/.  To  conveying  the  said  convicts 
from  London  to  Portsmouth,  with  proper  guards  and  every  necessary 
expense,  21/.  12s. 


101 

9th  August.     Contract  between  James  Lilbunie  of  Southill  and  "William    111 
Berrej]  of  Bedford,  lirickla3'er,  for  the  repair  of  two  bridges  at  Shefford 
called  the  North  Bridge  and  the  South  Bridge. 

The  said  William  Eerrell  contracts  to  take  down  and  rebuild  the  south  end 
of  tlie  east  wall  of  the  North  Bridge  and  to  take  down  and  rebuild 
four  water  piers  on  the  west  side  of  the  said  bridge  and  to  rebuild 
seven  new  buttresses  to  the  side  walls  of  the  said  bridge.  To  rock  with 
lime  and  stone  the  five  arches  of  the  said  bridge  and  to  floor  them  with 
brick  on  edge,  well  grouted.  To  rip  out  the  old  decayed  stones  and 
bricks  and  to  repair  the  walls  and  arches  in  a  substantial  manner.  To 
raise  the  parapet  walls  in  9  in.  brickwork,  well  flushed  and  grouted,  to 
three  feet  high,  including  lime  for  the  cement  of  the  arches,  with  the 
carriage  and  all  materials  for  the  work,  for  the  sum  of  63Z.  8s.  3^jd. 

He  also  contracts  to  take  down  and  rebuild  the  east  wall  of  the  South 
Bridge  with  four  new  buttresses  and  three  new  rims  to  the  east  end  of 
the  arches  and  to  raise  the  parapet  walls  three  feet  high  ;  to  take 
down  and  rebuild  three  water  piers  and  the  north  end  of  the  east  wall ; 
to  rip  out  the  decayed  bricks  and  to  repair  the  walls  and  arches  in  a 
substantial  manner,  including  carriage  and  materials,  for  the  sum  of 
54/.  8s.  6d. 


Account  of  Eilward  Whitbread  for  ironwork  done  to  the  Tan  Yard  Bridge.    118 


6th  October.  Presentment  that  there  is  an  ancient  highway  leading  from  131 
the  town  of  Henlow  to  Meppershall,  a  certain  part  whereof  lying  in  the 
parish  of  Clifton  and  extending  from  the  well  of  Clifton  to  the  eastern 
end  of  Hoe  Lane,  containing  in  length  1500  yards  and  in  breadth  30 
feet  is  in  decay  and  that  the  inhabitants  of  the  parish  of  Clifton  ought 
to  repair  the  same. 

Presentment  that  there  is  an  ancient  highway  leading  from  the  town  of  132 
Shitlington  to  Clophill,  a  certain  part  wheieof,  commonly  called  Upper 
Gravenhurst  Lane,  lying  in  the  parish  of  tipper  Gravenhurst  and 
extending  from  the  church  of  Upper  Gravenhurst  to  a  liridge  near 
Shitlington  Mill,  containing  in  length  G80  yards,  and  in  breadth  about 
40  feet,  is  in  decay  and  that  the  inhabitants  of  Upper  Gravenhurst 
ought  to  repair  the  same. 


Indictment   of  Thomas   Browne  of  the  parish   of   Bletsoe,    labourer,   for    133 
rescuing   two    bullocks    from    the   common    pound    in    the    parish   of 
Sharnbrook, 


Presentment  that  there  is  an  ancient  highway  Ljading  from  the  town  of    135 
Hitchin  to  the  town  of  Dunstable,  a'  certain  part  whereof,  lying  in  the 
parish   of  Barton   in   the  Clay  containing  in  length   250  yards  and  in 
breadth  five  yards,  is  in  decay  and  that  the  inhabitants  o"^f  the  Parish 
of  Barton  in  the  Clay  ought  to  repair  the  same. 


102 

138  Presentment  that  there  is  an  ancient  highway  learling  from  tlie  town  of 
Dunstable  to  the  town  of  Woliurn  in,  tlirougli  and  over  the  i>arish  of 
Porgrove  otherwise  Potsgrovc,  a  certain  part  whereof  in  the  ])arish  of 
Potgrove,  beginning  at  tlie  distance  of  1100  yards  from  the  40th 
milestone  from  London  and  between  that  stone  and  the  41st  milestone 
from  London  ami  ending  at  the  distance  of  1180  yards  from  the 
first  mentioned  milestone,  and  between  that  and  the  41st  milestone, 
containing  in  length  80  yards  and  in  breadth  10  yards,  is  in  decay,  and 
that  the  inhabitants  of  the  parish  of  Potsgrove  ought  to  repair  the  same. 


142  Presentment  that  the  common  bridge  over  a  brook  or  river  lying  in  the 

parish  of  Leighton  Buzzard  in  the  highway  there  leading  from  the  town 
of  Leighton  Buzzard  to  the  town  of  Dunstable  and  also  to  the  town  of 
Hemel  Hempstead,  is  in  decay,  and  that  the  inhabitants  of  the  county 
ought  to  repair  the  same. 

143  Presentment  that  there  is  an  ancient  highway  leading  from   the   town  of 

Dunstable  to  the  town  of  Newport  Pagnel,  co.  Bucks.,  in,  through  and 
over  the  parish  of  Woburn,  a  certain  part  whereof  in  the  parish  of 
Woburn  beginning  at  the  42nd  milestone  from  London  and  ending  at 
the  distance  of  286  yards  from  the  said  milestone,  and  between  that  and 
the  43rd  milestone  ;  ami  also  a  certain  part  of  the  same  highway  in  the 
said  parish  of  Woburn  beginning  at  the  distance  of  446  yards  from  the 
42nd  milestone  from  London  and  ending  at  the  distance  of  746  yards 
from  the  said  stone  and  between  that  and  the  43rd  milestone,  containing 
in  the  whole  586  yards  in  length  and  ten  yards  in  breadth,  are  in  decay, 
and  that  the  inhabitants  of  the  parish  of  Woburn  ought  to  repair  the 
same. 


146    13th  July.     Bedford.     Letter  from  William  Long  to  the  magistrates  for 
the  county  of  Bedford. 

He  states  that  he  understands  it  to  be  their  wii^h  that  the  executors  of 
Mr.  Watkins,  their  late  treasurer,  should  state  what  sum  they  would 
consider  to  be  a  remuneration  for  his  extra  trouble  in  the  management 
of  the  Militia,  Army  and  Navy  business  during  the  late  war,  and  also 
for  the  advance  of  money  at  various  times,  before  the  county  rates 
became  payable  and  particularly  during  the  erection  of  the  gaol.  He 
has  made  enquiries  of  the  clerks  in  the  office  as  to  the  nature  and 
extent  of  the  services  and  advances  of  Mr.  Watkins,  and  finds  that  in 
1798  an  allowance  of  50/.  was  made  for  his  extra  trouble  in  the 
Militia,  Army  ami  N^avy  business  to  that  period,  and  that  no  allowance 
has  been  since  made.  He  also  finds  that  ]\lr.  "Watkins  made  frequent 
advances  of  large  sums  of  money  for  the  use  of  the  county.  That  at 
the  passing  of  the  year's  account  in  April,  1800,  a  balance  was  due  to 
him  of  403/.  ;  in  April,  1801,  a  balance  of  91/.  ;  and  in  April,  1802,  a 
balance  of  580/. 

The  executors  take  the  liberty  of  naming  100/.  as  a  remuneration  for  the 
name. 


25th  July.     Letter  from  Edmund  AYilliamson  to  John  Millar,  Esq,  147 

At  a  meeting  of  the  feoffees  held  this  day  at  Shefford,  it  was  agreed  to 
accede  to  tlie  proposals  made  in  their  name  to  the  court  on  Thursday 
last,  viz.  :  to  pay  one  half  of  the  expenses  of  repairing  the  bridges  at 
the  north  and  south  ends  of  the  town  of  Shefford  (now  tmder  an 
indictment)  by  instalments,  after  having  put  their  estate  in  good  and 
sufficient  repair,  of  which  it  is  now  in  great  want,  and  also  to  pay  one 
half  of  the  repairs  of  the  said  bridges,  in  future. 


22nd  December.  Memorandum  that  a  tenement  belonging  to  the  148 
Corporation  in  St.  Lloyds  (])  was  taken  down  in  the  beginning  of  the 
year  1802,  in  order  to  open  a  passage  to  the  county  gaol.  The  com- 
pensation to  the  Corporation  was  fixed  at  the  sum  of  30Z.  The  lessee 
of  the  tenement  was  Thomas  Bass,  glazier,  who  has  received  for  his 
interest  in  the  same  a  compensation  from  the  Corporation  conformably 
to  the  terms  of  the  agreement. 

The  Corporation  request  that  a  draft  for  the  above  sum   may   be  obtained 
by  Mr.  Pearse  on  the  treasurer  of  the  county  at  the  ensuing  session. 


1804. 

1  Itli  January.  Order  at  quarter  sessions,  stating  that  whereas  complaint  1 
has  been  made  to  the  justices  tliat  the  parish  workhouse,  or  house  kept 
and  ])rovided  for  the  maintenance  of  the  poor  of  the  parish  of 
Shidlington,  is  in  a  very  wretched  neglected  condition  ;  that  the  poor 
therein  are  idle,  disorderl}^,  and  disobedient ;  Ihat  much  misconduct 
and  irregularity  prevail  in  the  house  ;  and  that  a  reform  is  wanting  in 
every  department  thereof.  The  justices  theiefore  order  the  overseers  of 
the  poor  to  provide  a  proper  person  to  be  master  of  the  saitl  workhouse, 
who  shall  dwell  therein,  and  shall  duly  superintend  the  contluct  of 
the  poor  and  who  shall  provide  proper  emi>loyment  for  such  as  are 
able  to  work,  lie  shall  also  attend  to  the  state  and  condition  of  the 
house  in  regard  to  cleanliness,  and  see  that  ])roper  clothing  be  provided 
for  the  poor,  that  such  parts  of  the  bedding,  blankets,  sheets,  and 
coverings  as  are  worn  out  be  replaced  with  new  ones.  That  cradles  be 
])rovided  for  the  use  and  benefit  of  the  house,  with  suitable  furniture 
for  the  same.  That  the  windows  and  tiling  of  the  house  be  repaired  ; 
and  the  inside  of  the  house  whitewashed  throughout,  as  soon  as  the 
season  will  permit ;  and  that  the  overseers  shall  frequently  visit  the 
workhouse  and  examine  carefully  into  the  state  and  condition  of  the 
poor,  and  the  condition  of  the  food,  clothing  and  bedding. 

3rd  April.  Warrant  to  the  constables  to  produce  Thomas  Tucker,  of  2 
Litlington,  yeoman,  at  the  next  quarter  sessions,  to  answer  for 
inhumanly  removing  jNlary  Sharp,  a  single  woman  then  pregnant,  from 
the  jtarish  of  Litlington  to  Moulden  to  be  maintained  at  the  expense 
of  the  last-named  palish,  whereby  the  life  of  the  said  Mary  was 
eudanuered. 


104 

6  9th    December.     Directions,    by  order   of  the  Lord  Lieutenant,  to  the 

jNIayor  and  bailiffs  of  Bedford,  to  issue  their  warrant  to  the  petty- 
coiistahles  of  the  parish  of  St.  Paul  to  make  out  a  list  of  all  men 
usually  dwelling  in  the  said  parish  between  the  ages  of  18  and  45  years 
(persons  serving  in  the  volunteer-corps  and  certified  as  having  duly 
attended  musters  excepted)  liable  to  serve  in  the  militia. 

7  10th  June.     Notice  by  Edmund  Thorn,  appointed  a  surveyor  for  making 

and  completing  certain  roads  in  the  parish  of  Houghton  ILegis — under 
an  Act  of  43  Geo.  3,  entitled,  an  Act  to  alter  and  amend  an  Act  passed 
in  the  36th  3'ear  of  the  reign  of  his  present  Majesty,  entitled,  an  Act 
for  completing  and  allotting  the  common  anil  open  fields,  common 
meadows,  common  and  waste  lands  within  the  parish  of  Houghton 
Kegis,  and  to  give  power  for  making  and  completing  certain  roads — 
that  he  intends,  at  the  next  sessions,  to  certify  the  road  commonly 
called  the  Dunstable  and  Luton  road. 

12  16th  December.  Notice  by  tlie  Reverend  George  Cardale,  surveyor  of  the 
public  carriage  roads  in  Millbrook,  a})pointed  under  the  Act  of  35 
Geo.  3,  entitled — an  Act  for  dividing  and  enclosing  the  open  and. 
common  fields,  common  meadows,  commonalile  lands,  conunon  warren, 
and  waste  grounds  within  the  parish  of  Millbrook,  in  the  county  of 
Bedford — that  lie  intends  to  certify,  at  tlie  next  sessions,  that  the 
several  roads  set  out  and  awarded  by  the  commissioners  under  the  Act 
have  been  completed. 

27  Epiphany  sessions.  List  of  prisoners  in  the  house  of  correction  ; 
Mary  Carter,  a  lewd  woman,  12  months'  imprisonment,  and  hard 
labour. 

yO  11th  January.  Certificate  that  the  public  bridge  over  the  river  Ivel, 
commonly  called  the  Shefford  bridge,  lying  in  the  parish  of  Sheftbrd,  in 
a  certain  extra-parochial  place  called  Shetford  Hnrdwick  in  the  highVvay 
there  leading  from  Hitchin  to  the  town  of  JJedford,  is  sufficiently 
repaired. 

81  11th   January.     Certificate   that  a  pulJic  bridge  over  a  river  running  by 

iind  from  the  parish  of  Compton  into  the  River  Ivel,  commonly  called 
iShettbrd  South  l)ridge,  lying  in  the  several  parishes  of  Meppershall, 
Clifton,  and  Shefforil,  in  the  highway  there  leading  from  the  town  of 
Hitchin  to  the  town  of  Bedford,  is  sufficiently  repaired. 

82  11th  January.      Report  by  James  Webster,  J. P.,   on  the  condition  of  the 

parish  worklujuse  uf  Shidlington.  That  he  visited  the  said  workhouse 
on  the  29th  December  last.  That  the  master  of  the  house  is  extremely 
negligent  in  his  duty,  not  residing  in  the  house,  and  being  wholly 
occupied  in  other  pursuits  he  has  no  time  to  attend  to  the  state  of  the 
house  or  the  poor  therein.  The  poor  being  umler  no  authority  are 
disohedient,  idle  and  disonlerly,  and  quarrels,  strifes,  and  contentions 
daily  take  place  therein,  much  misconduct  and  iiregvdarity  prevail  in 
the  house;  the  said  house  is  much  neglected  in  regard  to  cleanliness, 


inn 

anfl  some  of  the  coverings  of  the  beds,  the  blankets,  sheets,  and 
clfitliing  are  in  a  wretched  condition.  There  are  three  infants  in  arms 
in  the  said  house  without  one  cradle  being  provided  for  their  use.  No 
])roper  emiiloyinent  is  provided  by  the  master  for  such  as  are  able  to 
work,  and  several  of  tliese,  especially  the  females,  are  absent  from  the 
house  whole  nights  and  days  together,  contrary  to  decency  and  good 
order.  The  overseers  of  the  poor  are  peculiarly  negligent  in  their 
duty  and  seldom  visit  the  house  or  enquire  into  the  condition  thereof. 

11th  July.  Certificate  by  Philip  Monoux  and  James  Webster,  J.P., 
that  they  have  viewed  a  certain  part  of  a  common  highway  leading 
from  the  hamlet  of  Broom  in  the  parish  of  Southill  towards 
Biggleswade,  situate  in  the  handet  of  Holme,  containing  in  length 
231  yards  and  in  breadth  25  feet,  and  that  they  find  the  same 
sufficiently  repaired,  and  that  travellers  with  horses,  carts,  and  carriages 
may  safely  travel  upon  and  over  the  same. 

11th  July.  Certifcate  by  Edward  Thorn,  yeoman,  surveyor  under  the  88 
Act  of  36  Geo.  HI.,  entitled,  "An  Act  for  dividing  and  allotting  the 
common  and  open  fields,  common  meadows,  common  and  waste  lands 
within  the  parish  of  Houghton  Regis  in  the  county  of  Bedford,  and 
to  give  power  for  making  certain  roads — that  a  certain  road  called  the 
iJunstable  and  Luton  road  is  completed." 

19th  September.  Certifcate  by  John  Higgins  and  William  Hooper  that  90 
the  public  carriage  roads  set  out  in  the  parish  of  Oakley  by  the 
commissioners  under  the  Act  of  43  Geo.  III.,  entitled,  "An  Act  for 
dividing,  allotting,  and  enclosing  the  open  and  common  fields,  common 
lammas  meadows,  common  and  waste  lands  within  the  parish  of 
Oakley  in  the  county  of  Bedford,"  and  of  an  Act  of  41  Geo.  III., 
c.  109,  entitled,  "An  Act  for  consolidating  in  one  Act  certain 
provisions  usually  inserted  in  acts  of  enclosure,  and  for  facilitating  the 
mode  of  proving  the  several  facts  usually  required  on  the  passing  of 
such  Acts" — have  been  formed  and  completed. 

19th  September.     Certifcate  by  the  same  that  the  public  carriage  roads    91 
set  out  in  the  parish  of  Milton  Ernest  by  the  commissioners  under  the 
Act  of  43  Geo.  III.  for  dividing  and  enclosing  the  open  and  common 
fields,  etc.,  in  the  said  parish,  have  been  completed. 

3rd  October.  Certifcate  by  John  ^loore  Howard,  gaoler,  that  felons  and  92 
debtors  are  kept  seperate,  that  no  spirituous  liquors  are  supplied  in  the 
gaol  except  in  cases  of  sickness,  that  a  clergyman  is  provided  to 
officiate  in  the  gaol.  Persons  acquitted  or  discharged  upon 
proclamation  for  want  of  prosecution  are  immediately  discharged  in 
open  court  without  fee;  the  cells  are  scraped  and  whitewashed  and 
ventilators  are  provided,  two  rooms  are  set  apart  for  the  sick,  a  warm 
and  cold  bath  or  bathing  tubs  are  provided,  and  that  a  surgeon  is  also 
provided. 


lOfi 

93  21st    November.     Certifcate    of    the.    conviction   of    William    Revenell, 

servant  of  the  Jieverend  Mr.  Utter,  of  Colmworth,  and  otliers,  of 
gaming  in  the  house  of  Solomon  Safford,  publican  of  Colmworth; 
fined  ten  shillings  each. 

94  24th  December.     A  return  of  the  officers,  non-commissioned  officers  and. 

men  of  the  Bedfordshire  Militia.  It  consisted  of  1  lieutenant-colonel, 
1  captain,  7  Heutenants,  2  ensi^nis,  1  ca[)tain  and  adjutant,  1  surgeon 
and  surgeon's  mate,  1  quarter-master,  24  sergeants,  23  corporals, 
16  drummers,  and  44G  privates. 

99  Gaoler's  account: — Removing  Christopher  Grey  to  a  "lunatic-house"  at 
Hoxton,  £4:  16s.  Od.  Finding  Thomas  Peacock,  a  sick  prisoner, 
3  meals  of  meat  and  3  pints  of  milk  a  day,  and  beer  and  spirits  for  six 
weeks,  £3   13s.   6d.     One  quarter's  shaving  prisoners,  10s.   6d. 

100    Account  for  repairs  to  the  County  Hall. 

103  Certificate  of  wagons  supplied  for  the  removal  of  soldiers'  luggage, 
ammunition,  &c.,  pursuant  to  the  order  of  the  Secretary  of  State  : — 
May  20th  and  21st,  Northampton  Militia  to  St.  Albans;  May  24th, 
Leicester  Militia;  May  26th,  Derby  Militia;  May  27th,  Warwick 
Militia,  all  to  St.  Albans ;  June  6th,  The  7th  Regiment  of  Dragoons 
to  Hertford,  Hatfield,  and  St.  Albans ;  August  30th,  Warwick 
Supplementary  to  Stony  Stratford  ;  September  22nd,  Stafford  Militia 
to  Chesham ;  October  7th,  69lh  Regiment  Foot  to  St.  Albans  ; 
December  13th,  14th  and  15th,  47th  Regiment  Foot  to  Stony 
Stratford  ;  December  26th  to  31st,  30th  Regiment  Foot  to  Stony 
Stratford,  and  also  on  31st  December  to  llockliffe;  1804,  January  2,  3, 
23rd  Regiment  Dragoons  to  Newport. 

115  Gaoler's  accounts  : — Privately  whip|)ing  James  O'dell,  William  Chapman 
and  William  Rarey,  15  shillings  ;  providing  mutton  biotlis,  ponadoes, 
and  other  nourishment  for  D.  Oliver,  17  days,  £1   2s.   4d. 

127  Gaoler's  account:- — for  removing  3  convicts  to  the  "Captivity"  hulk 
lying  at  Portsmouth,  £15. 

130  Gaoler's  account: — Whi))ping  George  Wrench,  5  shillings:  privately 
whipping  William  Barber  and  Thomas  Robinson,  10  shillings, 

148    John  Wing's  account  for  rejtairs  to  county  gaol,  <£84  Os.   Hd. 

170  Presentment  that  a  public  bridge  over  a  river  running  Ijy  and  from  the 
parish  of  Campton  into  the  river  Ivel,  commonly  called  SheH'onl  South 
bridge,  situate  in  the  parishes  of  Mepper.shall,  Clifton,  and  Sheiford,  in 
the  highway  there  leading  from  Hitchin  to  Bedford,  is  in  decay,  and 
that  the  inhabitants  of  the  county  of  Bedford  ought  to  repair  the  same, 


107 

Presentment  that  a  public  bridge  over  the  river  Ivel,  commonly  called    171 
Shetford    North  bridge,   in  the  parish   of   Shefford,    and   in    a   certain 
extra-parochial  ])lace  called  Shefford   Hard  wick e,  in  the  highway  there 
leading  from  Hitchiii  to  Bedford,  is  in  decay,  and  that  the  inhabitants 
of  the  county  of  Bedford  ought  to  repair  the  same. 

Presentment  that  there  is  an  acient  highway  leading  from  the  hamlet  of    172 
Broom  in  the  parish  of  Southill  to  the  town  of  Biggleswade,   a  certain 
part   whereof  lying   in  the    hamlet    of    Holme,    containing    in   length 
230  yards  and  in  breadth  25  feet,  is  in  decay,  and  that  the  inhabitants 
of  the  hamlet  of  Holme  ought  to  repair  the  same. 

Indictment  of  John  Ladd,  of  the  parish  of  Litlington,  yeoman,  overseer    173 
of  the  poor  of  the   said    parish,    for   removing   ]\Iary   Sharp,    a  single 
woman  suffering  with  the  pains  of  labour,  from  the  said  parish  to  the 
parish  of  Maulden  without  lawful  warrant. 

7th  May.     Hoxton.     Letter  from  E.  Burrow  to  the  keeper  of  the  gaol    194 
with  his  account  for  the  maintenance  of  Christopher  Grey  [a  lunatic] 
from  18th  October,  1803,  to  19th  April,  1804,  £14. 

22nd  October.     Letter  from  the  same  E.  Burrow  to  the  keeper  of  the  gaol    195 
with  similar  account  from    19th  April  to   19tli   October,   <£14.     The 
patient  is  still  in  the  same  condition. 

5th  October.     Appointment  of  Stephen  Dodd,  of  Woburn,  postmaster,  to    198 
make  weekly  returns  of  the   average   prices  of   wheat,    etc.,   from    the 
market  town  of  Woburn. 


Various  copies  of  the  London  Gazette  and  Northampton  Mercury.  199 200 


1805. 

30th   June.     Notice    by    Edmund    Thorn,    surveyor   under    an    act    of    12 
43    Geo.    III.,   amending    an    act  of    36  Geo.    III.,   for  dividing  and 
allotting  the  common  and  open  fields,  etc.,  in  the  parish  of  Houghton 
Kegis,  and  to  give  powers  for  making  roads  set  out  by   the  commis- 
sioners, that  the  road  called  the  Houghton  and  Luton  lload  is  completed. 


9th  October.  Order  at  (piarter  sessions  that  the  inhabitants  of  the  hamlet 
of  Holme  pay  a  fine  £75  for  not  repairing  part  of  an  ancient  highway 
leading  from  Biggleswade  to  the  hamlet  of  Broome  containing  in 
length  960  yards,  and  also  part  of  the  same  higliway  leading  from 
Langford  Lane  to  the  Bridge  at  Holme  Mill  in  the  said  hamlet  of 
Holme,  containing  in  length  420  yards,  and  each  of  them  containing 
ill  breadth  about  30  feet. 


30 


10^ 

38  List  of  prisoners  : — John  Osborn,  convicted  of  larceny,  ordered  to  be 
imprisoned  in  the  house  of  correction  for  a  month  and  to  be  publicly 
whipped  in  the  town  of  Dunstable  on  the  market  day  ;  John  Beck, 
convicted  of  larceny,  is  ordered  to  be  imprisoned  in  the  house  of 
correction  for  one  month  and  to  be  twice  privately  whipped  during 
that  period. 

47  List  of  prisoners  : — John  Saunders,  convicted  of  larceijy,  is  ordered  to 
be  imprisoned  in  the  house  of  correction,  to  be  kept  to  hard  labour  for 
one  month,  and  to  be  publicly  whipped  on  market  day  at  the  town  of 
Dunstable. 


84  16th   January.     Certificate  by  the   Reverend  George   Cardale  that  the 

roads  set  out  by  the  commissioners  under  the  Act  of  35  Geo.  III.,  for 
dividing  and  enclosing  the  open  and  common  fields,  etc.,  in  the  parish 
of  Millbrooke,  have  been  completed. 

85  23rd  February.     Certificate  of  the  conviction  of  David    Whiteman    for 

hawking  goods  without  a  license,  not  being  a  wholesale  trader  in 
woollen,  cotton,  and  mixed  goods,  and  not  being  the  real  worker  or 
maker  of  the  goods,  wares,  and  merchandize  offered  for  sale. 

86  19th  April.     Certificate   that  ])art  of  an  ancient  highway  leading  from 

the  town  of  Dunstable  to  Woburn  through  the  ])arish  of  Milton 
Bryant,  beginning  at  the  distance  of  600  yards  from  the  39th  milestone 
from  London,  and  between  that  milestone  and  the  fortieth  milestone 
from  London,  and  ending  at  the  distance  of  700  yards  from  the  said 
first  mentioned  milestone,  and  between  that  milestone  and  the  last 
mentioned  milestone,  and  also  another  part  of  the  same  highway  at 
the  parish  of  ^lilton  Bryant,  beginning  at  the  distance  of  290  yards 
from  the  40th  milestone  from  London  and  ending  at  the  distance  of 
690  yards  from  the  said  last  mentioned  milestone,  and  between  that 
stone  and  the  41st  milestone,  also  from  London,  containing  in  the 
whole  in  length  400  yards,  and  in  l)readth  10  yards,  have  been 
sufficiently  repaired. 

[No.  174  is  the  presentment  tliat  the  above  said  higliway  slioulJ  l)e  repaired 
by  the  inliabitauts  of  the  parish  of  Milton  Brj-ant. ) 

89  3rd  July.  Certificate  by  Francis  Pym  and  James  "Webster,  clerk,  J.P's, 
that  the  roads  set  out  by  James  Lilburn,  sole  commissioner,  for 
dividing  the  common  fields,  &c.,  of  the  parish  of  Cardington,  under  the 
Act  41  George  III.,  are  in  good  and  complete  repair. 

go  6th  July.  Certificate  by  Francis  Pym,  Esq.,  and  WoUaston  Pym,  clerk, 
J.P's,  that  the  roads  set  out  by  Thomas  Tliorpe  and  James  Lilburn, 
commissioner.^,  for  dividing  the  common  iields,  ifcc,  of  the  parish  of 
Astwick,  under  the  Act  41  George  III.,  are  in  good  and  complete 
repair. 


109 


17th  -Tuly.     Certificate  that  part  of  tlie  highway  in  parish  of  Clophill,    92 
exteniling  from  the  boundary  of  tlie  parish  of  Clophill  nearest  to  Upper 
Gravenhurst  and  terminating  at  a  gale  a  little  beyond  the  sand-pits 
near  Kause   Farm,   containing  in    length    560   yards    and    in    breadth 
30  feet,  has  been  repaired. 


[No.   161  is  tl 


161  in  the  presentment  that  the  said  road  sliould  be  repaired  by  the 
inhabitants  of  tlie  parisli  of  Clophill.] 


17th  duly.     Certificate  by  Edward  Thorn,  Yeoman,  surveyor  under  the    93 
Act  of  43  Geo.  III.,  for  dividing  and  enclosing  the  common  and  open 
fields,  &c.,  in  the  parish  of  Houghton   Regis,   that  the  roads   set   out 
under  the  said  Act  have  been  completed. 


9th  October.  Certificate  that  the  roads  set  out  under  the  Act  of  94 
42  Geo.  III.,  for  dividing  and  enclosing  the  common  and  open  fields  in 
the  parishes  of  Shitlington  and  Holwell  have  been  formed  and 
completed,  viz.,  a  public  carriage  way  and  highway  leading  from  the 
pound  on  the  green  in  the  township  of  Shitlington  by  the  public  house 
called  the  Man|uis  of  Granby,  and  thence  eastwards  into  the  hamlet 
of  Lower  Stondon  ;  a  public  carriage  road  and  highway  leading  from 
the  public  house  called  the  Red  Sign  Post,  in  Upton  End,  across  Hill 
Field  into  the  parish  of  Meppershall ;  and  a  public  carriage  road  and 
highway  leading  from  Ion  bridge  south-eastwardly  to  the  south  corner 
of  Hanscomb  End  green  and  across  Handscomb  End  field  and 
Hanscomb  End  common  to  the  old  enclosures. 


9th    October.     Certificate     that    the    roads    set    out    under    the    Act    of    95 
42   George  ILL,   fur   dividing   and   enclosing   the   common   and   open 
fields,   &c.,   in  the   parishes   of  Shitlington   and  Holwell,    have    been 
formed  and  completed. 


9th  October.     Gaoler's  Certificate  that  the  orders  for  regulating  the  gaol    96 
have  been  complied  with. 


IGth  December.     Certificate  of  the  conviction  of  William  Taylor,  of  the    97 
parish  of  Riseley  for  cutting  and  destroying  the    underwood    in    the 
woods  of  the  Duke  of  Bedford  in  the  said  parish. 

Account  for  work  done  to  Lromham  bridge.  99 


Gaoler's  Account:  —  Finding  straw  for  the  gaol  and  house  of  correction,  105 
£.1  10s.  Od.  ;  Washing  and  mending,  finding  worsted  and  thread,  from 
j\Iichaelmas  to  E|)i])hany  sessions,  for  the  prisoners,  £5  8s.  Od.  ; 
Nourishment  for  ^lary  Dimmock,  in  fits  three  days,  also  beer  and  other 
refreshment  for  sitters  up,  9  shillings  ;  Correcting  and  whipping 
Robert  (jloodnuiu  and  Thomas  Jordan,  10  shilluigs. 


110 

111    Account  of  Mr..  Smith  for  ink,  pens,  and  "one  i\Ioore's  Almanac." 

118  22nd  April.  Estimate  l)y  John  \Vin<^'  for  tuking  up  the  old  steps  at  the 
north  front  of  the  sessions  house,  and  making  new  ones  in  Portland 
stone  ;  to  make  a  new  Ketton  stone  curb  at  each  end  of  the  steps  with 
a  ramp  ;  to  fi.K  the  iron  work  2  feet  higher  than  it  now  is  ;  to  convert 
the  present  old  steps  into  a  curb  ;  and  to  hang  the  gates,  and  to  make 
pavement  in  front. 

120  Gaoler's  account: — Privately  whipping  at  two  different  times  John 
Beck,  10  shillings.  Chaise  hire  to  Dunstable  with  John  Osborn  to 
receive  public  whipping,  attendance  and  expenses,  £2  16s.  6d. 
Privately  whipping  Joseph  Collins  and  Ezekiel  Bannister,  10  shillings. 
Publicly  whip[)ing  William  Tomlin  at  the  cart's  tail,  15  shillings. 

154    Account  for  repairs  to  the  county  gaol. 

159    Gaoler's  account :— Privately  whipping  Thomas  Smith,  5  shillings. 

162  Presentment  that  there  is  an  ancient  highway  leading  from  the  town 
of  Biggleswaile  to  Langford  and  to  the  hamlet  of  Broome,  a  certain 
part  whereof,  commonly  called  Langfonl  Lane,  in  the  hamlet  of  Holme, 
containing  in  length  960  yards,  and  also  another  part  of  the  same 
highway  leading  from  Langford  Lane  to  the  bridge  at  Holme  Mill  in 
the  hamlet  of  Home  (sic),  containing  in  length  420  yards,  each  of  the 
said  highways  containing  in  breadth  about  30  feet,  and  that  the 
inhabitants  of  the  hamlet  of  Holme  ought  to  repair  the  same. 


173  Presentment  that  a  common  public  bridge  over  the  river  Uuse  in  the 
parish  of  Felmersham,  leading  from  the  town  of  Harrold  to  the  town 
of  Bedford,  in  the  county  aforesaid,  called  Kodwell  Bridge,  is  in  decay, 
and  that  the  inhabitants  of  the  County  of  Bedford  ought  to  repair  the 
same. 

185  Letter — "William  Mead  to  T.  Pearse,  undated,  "The  assault  committed  by 
these  men  and  their  companions  was  a  most  violent  and  outrageous 
one.  The  i\Iarquis  of  Tweedale  much  wished  to  have  brought  them  to 
a  court  martial  at  Dunstable,  but  some  officers  who  commanded  a 
detachment  of  horse,  and  were  with  their  troops  then  at  Dunstable, 
dissuaded  him  from  doing  so,  and  sent  the  case  to  me.  It  is  hard 
upon  Mr.  Atterbury  to  be  obliged  to  prosecute  when  he  was  only 
acting  a  humane  iiart  in  seeing  justice  done  to  the  labourers  on  the 
turnpike  roail,  and  still  harder  on  Messender,  the  prosecutor,  who  is  a 
day  labourer.  I  shall  esteem  it  a  favour  if  you  make  application 
to  the  court  that  the  expenses  of  his  (sic)  piosecution  may  be 
defrayed  by  the  county."  Podsn'ipt.  "  The  evidence  with  respect  to 
Adam  Graham  produced  before  me,  was  ; — William  Atterbury  swore 


Ill 

that  he  saw  Graham  lift  up  liis  stick  to  assault  liim,  that  he  was 
immediately  attacked  ami  received  several  .severe  blows  from  bludgeons 
and  was  knocked  down.  Charles  Raynard,  of  ^^aughton  Hall, 
Cheshire,  swore  that  he  saw  Graham  leave  his  ranks  as  a  soldier  and 
strike  at  some  person. 


1806. 

8th  October.  List  of  prisoners  : — John  Summerfield,  convicted  of  32 
larceny,  and  ordered  to  be  imprisoned  and  kept  to  hard  labour  for  six 
months,  and  until  the  market  day  for  the  town  of  Anipthill  when  he 
is  to  be  there  publicly  whipped  and  discharged  ;  John  Olney,  convicted 
of  an  assault  on  Ann  Paterson,  is  ordere<l  to  be  imprisoned  in  the 
common  gaol  of  the  county  three  months,  and  until  the  market  day  for 
the  town  of  Luton,  when  he  is  to  stand  in  the  pillory  there  for  one 
hour  between  the  hours  of  11  in  the  forenoon  and  1  in  the  afternoon, 
and  then  to  be  discharged. 

15th   January.     Certificate    that   the   roads   set    out    under    the    Act    of    78 
42    Geo.    III.    for    dividing    and    enclosing    the    common    and    open 
fields,   &c.,  in   the   parishes   of  Shitlington   and    Holwell,    have   been 
formed  and  completed. 

13th  July.     Certificates  of  the  conviction  of  various  persons  for  trading    84 — 86 
on  Sunday. 

16th  July.     Certificate  that  the  roads  set  out  under  the  Act  of  44  Geo.  III.    ^7 
for   dividing   lands  in    the   parish   of   Arlsey   have   been  formed    and 
completed. 

8th  October.     Gaoler's  certificate  that  the  orders  for  the  regulation  of    88 
gaols  have  been  complied  with. 

22nd  December.      Return  of  the    Bedfordshire   Militia.     It  consisted   of    89 
1    colonel,    1    lieutenant-colonel,    1    major,    4    captains,   5   lieutenants, 
5  ensigns,    1   surgeon,    17   .sergeants  (including  2  staff),    15   corporals, 
12  drummers,  including  1  drum-major  ;  and  315  privates. 

Gaoler's    account : — Removing    and    delivering    on     board    the    hulks    95 
at  Woolwich  James  Wite  under  sentence   of   transportation    for   life, 
£8   5s.   Od.      Whipping  John  Ingram  and  William  Taylor,  10  shillings. 


Account  for  work  at  Harrold  Bridge. 


99 


Gaoler's  account:  —  Chaise   hire  to  I)unstal)]t',   M-ith   John   Saunders  to    108 
receive  pul)lic  whipping,  £2    14s.   9d. 

Gaoler's  account: — To  finding  Thomas  Pestell  ponadoes  with  spirit,  sugar    i  ig 
and  spii cs,  with  mt-at  every  day  for  9  weeks  and   2  days,  £4   Gs.   8d. 
Kenidviiig  and  putting  on  board  the  hulks  at  Woolwich  James  Allen 
for  life  and  William  Watts  for  7  years. 


112 

124    Account  for  repairs  at  the  gaol  anrl  county  hall. 

145  Presentment  that  there  is  a  highway  leading  in  one  direction  from  the 
town  of  IMeppershall  towards  the  parish  of  Hexton,  and  in  another 
direction  to  the  parish  of  Upper  Gravenhurst,  a  certain  part  whereof 
called  Shidlington  Lane  in  the  parish  of  Shidlington,  containing  in 
length  2,730  yards  and  in  breadth  30  feet,  which  highway  in  one 
direction  lies  between  the  Red  Sign  Post  public  house  and  the 
beginning  of  the  new  road  which  leads  to  Hine  Bridge,  and  in  another 
direction  lies  between  the  said  public  house  and  a  cottage  in  the  said 
highway  near  the  gate  which  leads  to  Sliidlington  Berry  Farm  in  the 
parish  of  Shidlington,  is  in  decay,  and  that  ihe  inhabitants  of  the 
parish  of  Shidlington  ought  to  repair  the  same. 

147  Indictment  of  Lydia  Bland,  wife  of  Benjamin  Bland,  of  Compton-cura- 
Shett'ord,  labourer  ;  and  Frances  Odell,  wife  of  James  Odell,  of  the 
same,  labourer,  for  stealing  three  quarts  of  British  compound  spirituous 
liquor  called  gin,  value  seven  shillings  and  sixpence  ;  one  quart  of 
British  compound  spirituous  liquor,  called  cordial  of  peppermint,  value 

2  shillings    and    6    pence ;    and    one    quart    of    foreign    wine    value 

3  shillings. 

167  4th  July.  Bedford.  Tlie  trustees  and  principal  members  of  the  society  of 
Protestant  dissenters  belonging  to  the  old  meeting  house,  return  their 
respectful  acknowledgments  to  the  magistrates  of  the  county  for 
permitting  them  the  use  of  the  county  hall  during  the  late  repair  of 
their  place  of  worship  to  which  they  have  now  returned. 

168 169    21st  October  and  22nd  December.     Hoxton.     Letters  from  E.  Burrow  to 

the  county  treasurer  enclosing  his  accounts  for  the  board,  &c.,  of 
Christopher  (Tray  : — 

Gray  is  well  in  health  but  still  continues  very  much  deranged  at  intervals. 
170   &c.    ^^'^  newspapers  and  gazettes. 

1807. 

25  Epiphany   Sessions.       List    of    prisoners: — John    Brown,    convicted    of 

larceny,  is  ordered  to  be  impiis()ned  in  the  house  of  correction  and 
kept  to  hard  labour  for  12  months,  and  then  to  be  publicly  whipped  at 
the  market  town  of  Wobiirn  and  discharged.  -John  Goodman, 
convicted  of  larceny,  to  be  imprisoned  for  2  months,  and  then  to  be 
publicly  whipiied  at  Great  Baiford.  Edward  Brown,  a  rogue  and 
vagabond,  sentenced  to  6  months'  imprisonment  and  to  be  privately 
whipped,  ami  at  the  end  of  his  term  to  be  employed  in  the  King's 
service  by  land. 

26  Epiphany  Sessions.     Gaol  calendar: — John   Summerfit'ld,  ordered  to  be 

imprisoned  6  months  and  then  publicly  wiiipped  at  Ampthill. 


113 

9th  December.     Information  of  Nathaniel  Gutteridge,  of  Luton,  laborer,    68 
that  Geori;e  Kirk,  under  false  pretences,  obtained  of  him  £2   Is.,  by- 
offering  himself  as  a  substitute  for  the  said  informant  to  serve  in  the 
Bedfordshire  militia,  saying  he  was  sound  and  fit  when  he  had  been 
discharged  from  the  army  for  a  bad  arm. 


14th  January.     Certificate  that  the  roads  set  out  by  the  commissioners    72 
under    the    Act    of    43    George    III.   for  dividing  and   enclosing  the 
comnujn  and  open  fields,  &c.,  in  the  parish  of  Kempston,  have  beeu 
formed  and  completed, 


7th  April.  Report  by  James  Webster,  clerk,  J.  P.  On  this  day  he  78 
visited  the  parish  workhouse  for  the  maintenance  of  the  poor  of 
Lidlington.  The  workhouse  is  not  fit  for  the  habitation  of  man.  It 
is  ruinous,  dilapidated,  and  decayed.  The  poor  therein  are  in  want  of 
food,  clothing,  bedding,  fire,  and  every  other  necessary  accommodation. 
This  house  was  formerly  the  pest  house  for  the  parish  of  Lidlington 
and  was  converted  into  a  house  for  the  recei»tion  of  the  poor.  In  the 
house  there  are  21  inmates  living  in  the  most  wretched  condition 
without  any  governor  or  master  or  without  any  care  or  attention  from 
a  parish  officer.  In  one  bed,  consisting  of  little  better  than  a  few  rags, 
five  persons  sleep,  viz.  : — Ann  Goodman  and  her  two  children  and 
Catherine  Goodman  and  one  child.  Ann  Goodman  aged  24  is  quite 
naked  for  want  of  clothing.  Joseph  Saunder.s,  a  healthy  and  strong 
youth  in  appearance,  aged  9  years,  without  parents  and  without 
employment  :  Amelia  Goodman  aged  19  years,  daughter  of  Henry 
Goodman  aged  62  years,  by  trade  a  razor  grinder;  Amelia  Goodman 
sleeps  upon  the  ground  with  a  few  rags  to  cover  her ;  she  wanted  a 
little  straw  ;  the  parish  officers  would  not  give  it  to  her  and  she 
purchased  three  pennyworth.  Ann  Hobbi?,  wife  of  John  Hobbs,  with 
an  infant  three  quarters  of  a  year  old,  aged  29  years  ;  Thomas  Tucker, 
a  labourer,  aged  60  ;  John  IMarriott,  a  labourer,  aged  63,  lame,  he 
Works  for  3s.  a  week  ;  Edward  Pepper  aged  19  years  goes  to  work, 
Edward  Tucker  aged  10  years  goes  to  work.  These  4  sleep  upon  the 
floor  in  an  upper  room  and  ascend  by  a  ladder,  Edward  Walton,  who 
is  blind,  and  Mary  liis  wife,  who  is  lame,  having  one  leg  only,  and 
•  their  3  children  ascend  to  the  room  by  a  ladder.  Their  bedding  is 
tolerably  good. 

The  present  overseers  of  the  poor  have  beeu  summoned  to  appear  before 
quarter  sessions. 

The  poor  of  Lidlington  in  general  made  very  grevious  complaint  against  the 
overseers  for  their  neglect. 

Note  at  the  end  : — "Elizabeth  Lurgoyne  aged  14,  unemployed  and  almost 
naked  ;  William  Taylor  and  wife  and  6  children,  8s.  6d.  weekly 
because  he  has  no  messuage."  Thomas  Mann  and  wife,  very  old 
peojile,  6s.  6d.  weekly.  James  Scott  and  wife  and  3  children,  8s. 
weekly  ;  William  Clarke  and  wife  and  6  children,  8s.  weekly. 


114 

79    7th   October.     Gaoler's    certificate   that   the  directions  for  regulating 
gaols  have  been  complied  with. 


80  7th  October.  Certificate  that  the  roads  set  out  by  the  commissioners 
under  the  Act  of  45  George  III.  for  enclosing  lands  in  the  parishes  of 
Carlton,  Chellington,  and  Steventon,  have  been  formed  and  completed. 


81  7th  October.  Certificate  that  a  common  bridge  over  the  river  Ivel, 
commonly  called  Clay  Bridge,  the  south  part  whereof  to  the  middle  of 
the  stream  is  in  the  parish  of  Clifton,  anil  the  north  part  to  the  middle 
of  the  stream  is  in  the  parish  of  Southill  in  the  highway  there  leading 
from  the  parish  of  Henlow  to  the  parish  of  Northill,  has  been  repaired. 


82  7th  October.  Certificate  that  the  roads  set  out  by  the  commissioners 
under  the  Act  of  45  George  111.  for  enclosing  lands  in  the  parish  of 
Chellington,  &c.,  have  been  formed  and  completed. 


83  2nd  December.  Certificate  of  the  conviction  of  Joseph  Smith,  of 
St.  Paul's,  Bedford,  wheelwright,  and  Edward  Allen,  of  St.  Peter's, 
Bedford,  cordwainer,  for  using  3  dogs,  viz.,  a  greyhound,  a  lurcher,  and 
a  spaniel  for  destroying  hares  iu  the  daytime  in  the  parish  of 
Kempston. 


84  24th  December.  Return  of  the  Bedfordshire  Militia  :  1  colonel,  1  lieu- 
tenant-colonel, 1  major,  3  captains,  5  lieutenants,  3  ensigns,  1  captain 
and  adjutant,  18  sergeants  including  2  staff  sergeants,  12  corporals, 
12  drummers  including  1  drum-nnijor,  and  356  privates  including 
newly  enrolled  men. 


99    Account  for  repairs  to  the  gaol,  &c. — Making  two  hemp  beaters  for  the 
gaol,  2s.  7id. 


lOj  Gaoler's  account : — Eenioving,  by  a  "  habeas  corpus,"  John  Dimmock, 
charged  with  felony,  to  Newgate,  and  coach  to  Hoxton  to  see 
Christopher  Gray,  £5  4s.  6d.  Publicly  whipping  John  Summerlield 
at  Ampthill,  man,  chaise  liire,  Sec,  £2. 


124  Gaoler's  account: — Publicly  whipping,  at  the  cart's  tail  for  a  distance 
of  100  yards  in  Bedford,  Thomas  Peck,  13s.  Removing  and  putting 
on  board  the  hulks  at  Woolwich  3  convicts,  under  sentence  of  trans- 
portation, £20. 


132    Account  for  repairs  to  Harrold  Bridge. 


115 

8th  April.  Presentment  that  an  ancient  highway  leading  from  the  town  141 
of  Harlington  to  the  town  of  Barton,  and  the  whole  of  the  said 
highway  lying  in  the  parish  of  Streatley,  containing  in  length  338  poles 
or  perches,  and  in  breadth  12  feet,  "where  the  ground  between  the 
fences  will  admit  thereof,"  is  in  decay,  and  that  the  inhabitants  of  the 
parish  of  Streatley  ought  to  repair  the  same. 

8th  April.  Presentment  that  there  is  an  ancient  highway  leading  from  142 
the  town  of  Harlington  to  the  town  of  Hexton  in  the  county  of 
Hertford,  a  certain  part  whereof  lying  in  the  parish  of  Barton,  from 
the  beginning  of  the  parish  of  Barton  adjoining  the  parish  of  Streatley 
to  the  turnpike  road  leading  from  the  town  of  Silsoe  to  the  town  of 
Luton,  containing  287  poles  in  length  and  12  feet  in  breadth,  "where 
the  ground  between  the  fences  enclosing  the  same  will  admit  thereof," 
is  in  decay,  and  that  the  inhabitants  of  the  parish  of  Barton  ought  to 
repair  the  same. 


7th  October.  Presentment  that  there  is  an  ancient  highway  leading  from  143 
Warden  street  in  the  parish  of  Warden  to  the  town  of  Shefford,  a 
certain  part  whereof,  adjoining  the  parish  of  Southill,  in  the  parish  of 
Warden,  containing  in  length  242  yards,  and  in  breadth  about  24  feet, 
is  in  decay,  and  that  the  inhabitants  of  the  parish  of  Warden  ought  to 
repair  the  same. 


Presentment  that  the  bridge  over  the  river  Ivel,  called  Clay  Bridge,  the    151 
south  jjart  whereof  to  the  middle  of  the  stream  is  in   the   parish   of 
Clifton,  and  the  north  part  whereof  to  the  middle  of  the  stream  is  in 
the  parish  of  Southill,  leading  from  the  parish  of  Henlow,  is  in  decay, 
and  that  the  inhabitants  of  the  county  ought  to  repair  the  same. 


15th  Ai)ril.  Hoxton.  Letter  from  E.  Burrow  to  Mr.  Howard,  "keeper  156 
of  the  county  castle."  Herewith  1  have  sent  you  my  bill  for  the 
board,  &c.,  of  the  late  Christopher  Guy,  who  died  the  1 3th  inst. 
"  As  he  died  in  a  mortified  state  I  was  obliged  to  have  him  buried  as 
soon  as  possible,  which  was  my  reason  for  not  acquainting  you  sooner. 
Should  anything  in  future  occur  within  the  circle  of  your  acquaintance 
I  hope  I  shall  be  honoured  with  your  favours." 


i8o8. 

5th  January.  Warrant  for  the  arrest  of  William  Edmund,  of  Studham,  1 
hired  servant  in  husbandry,  for  absconding  from  the  service  of  James 
Walters,  who  occupies  a  large  farm  at  Studham,  partly  in  Bedfordshire 
and  partly  in  Hertfordshire,  ami  on  the  said  Edmund  absconding  he 
applied  to  a  Herts,  magistrate  for  a  warrant,  but  Edmund  had  gone 
into  that  part  of  Studham  which  lies  in  Bedfordshire.  The  warrant 
was  then  addressed  to  the  constable  of  Studham  in  Bedfordshire  who 


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was  told  to  bring  Edmund  to  the  "  extent  of  the  county  "  where  a 
Hertfordshire  constable  would  arrest  him.  Instead  of  doing  tliis  the 
constable  of  Studham  in  Bedfordshire  permitted  Edmund  to  escape 
and  he  has  since  enrolled  himself  as  a  substitute  in  the  militia.  The 
last  mentioned  constable  is  to  be  indicted  for  this  escape. 

8  6th  May.  Order  by  Edward  Tanqueray,  clerk,  and  James  Horseman, 
clerk,  justices  of  the  peace,  reciting  that  there  is  in  the  county  of 
Bedford  a  highway  leading  from  Studham  to  Dunstable,  a  certain  part 
whereof,  namely,  so  much  thereof  as  is  between  a  certain  place  called 
the  corner  of  Eaton  Craft  Field  nearest  to  Studham,  and  another 
corner  of  the  said  field  near  the  road  leading  to  Whipsnade,  being  in 
length  57  poles  2  links,  one  side  of  which  lies  in  the  parish  of 
Whipsnade  and  ought  to  be  repaired  by  the  inhabitants  of  Whipsnade  ; 
and  the  other  side  lies  in  the  parish  of  Studham  and  ought  to  be 
repaired  by  the  inhabitants  of  that  parish.  Also  that  there  is  in  the 
said  county  another  part  of  the  said  highway,  namely,  so  much  thereof 
as  lies  between  a  certain  place  called  the  corner  of  Land  Park  Wood 
and  a  certain  place  a  little  beyond  the  telegraph,  where  it  joins  the 
road  leading  to  Kensworth,  being  in  length  297  poles  17  links,  one 
side  whereof  is  in  the  parish  of  Whipsnade  and  ought  to  be  repaired 
by  the  inhabitants  thereof  ;  and  the  other  part  is  in  the  parish  of 
Totternhoe  and  ought  to  be  repaired  by  the  inhabitants  thereof.  The 
justices  now  order  that  the  said  highway  shall  be  divided  as  follows, 
namely,  That  at  the  distance  of  28h  poles  and  1  link,  measuring  from 
the  place  called  Eaton  Craft  Field  nearest  to  Studham  "  marked  A  in 
the  plan,"  there  shall  be  erected  certain  posts  or  stones  E  and  F  on 
each  side  of  the  said  highway  at  a  place  marked  B,  and  the  whole  of 
the  said  highway  from  the  place  marked  A  to  such  posts  or  stones 
marked  E  and  F  shall  be  from  time  to  time  and  at  all  times  hereafter 
repaired  by  the  parish  of  Studham.  And  the  whole  of  the  said 
highway  from  such  posts  or  stones  to  the  place  marked  C,  where 
certain  posts  or  stones  G  and  H  shall  be  erected  on  each  side  of  the 
highway,  being  289  poles  and  17  links  in  length,  shall  from  time  to 
time  and  at  all  times  hereafter  be  repaired  by  the  parish  of  Whipsnade. 
And  the  whole  of  the  said  highway  from  such  posts  and  stones  marked 
G  and  H  to  the  place  marked  D,  being  133  poles  and  8  links  in  length, 
shall  from  time  to  time  and  at  all  times  hereafter  be  repaired  by  the 
parish  of  Totternhoe. 

Plan  referred  to,  appended. 

29  13th  January.  List  of  prisoners: — Joseph  Bunyan,  convicted  of  grand 
larceny,  ordered  to  be  kept  to  hard  labor  in  the  house  of  correction  for 
one  month,  and  until  the  then  next  market  day  at  Luton,  and  to  be 
then  and  there  publicly  whipped  and  discharged. 

34  13th  July.  List  of  prisoners :  — James  Deacon  and  Ricliard  Childs, 
convicted  of  gi'and  larceny,  ordered  to  be  kept  to  hard  labor  in  the 
house  of  correction  for  twelve  montlis,  and  the  then  next  market  day 
at  Ampthill,  to  be  then  and  there  publicly  whipped. 


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5th  October.  List  of  prisoners  :— Elizabeth,  wife  of  John  Reynolds,  36 
convicted  of  grand  larceny,  ordered  to  be  transported  for  7  years! 
James  A¥ashington,  a  rogue  and  vagabond,  ordered  to  be  confined  in 
the  house  of  correction  for  one  month,  and  at  the  expiration  of  14  days 
to  be  privately  whipped,  and  at  the  expiration  of  the  mouth  to  be 
publicly  whipped  at  Bedford  and  discharged. 

The  information  of  John  Gibbon,  churchwarden  of  Toddington,  Elizabeth  73 
Reync.kls  of  the  same  place,  widow,  and  Elizabeth,  wife  of  William 
Wildman,  of  the  same  place,  bricklayer;  that  a  child  named 
John  Bright,  ag.!d  three  years,  son  of  John  Bright,  of  Toddington,  had 
been  unmercifully  beaten  and  otherwise  ill-treated  by  Hellen,  wife  of 
John  Bright,  its  mother-in-law. 

12th  September.     Complaint  by  Elizabeth  Phillips,  governess  or  matron    77 
of  the  parish  workhouse  of  Shidlington,  that  Jemima  Farrer  assaulted 
her. 

26th   ^N^ovember.       Information    of    Edward    Dowdeswell,    of   Maulden     79 
victualler.     That  on  Monday  morning  last  he  missed  two  hives  of  bees 
with  the  honey  from  his  garden,  and  found  a  quantity  of   honey   and 
the  comb  in  the  house  of  Thomas  Young,  of  Maulden. 

13th  January.     Certificate  that  the  bridge  over  the  river  Ivel,  between    82 
the   parish  of  Arlesey  and  Henlow,  called  Arlesey  Bridge,  has  been 
repaired. 


8th  February.     Certificate  that  the  parish  of  Risely  have  provided   John    83 
Bowyer  to  serve  in  the  Bedfordshire  Militia  instead  of  Georae  Watson 
who  was  serving  for  the  said  parish,  but  has  been  appointed  a  corporal 
in  the  said  militia  in  consequence  of  an  augmentation. 

17th  September.     Certificate  that  the  public  carriage  roads  and  highways    90 
leading   through   and    over   the    lands   and    grounds   in    the    parish   of 
Houghton  Conquest,  set  out  and  appointed  by  the  commissioners  under 
the  Act  passed  m  the  last  session  of  Parliament  for  enclosing  lands  in 
the  said  parish,  have  been  formed  and  completed. 

5th  October.     Gaoler's  certificate  that  the  orders  for  regulating  prisons    92 
have  been  complied  with.  °  ^ 


oth  Oc  obei.^  Certificate  that  a  certain  part  of  the  highway,  commonly 
called  'Shi.  hngton  Lane,  lying  in  the  parish  of  Shidlington,  containing 
m  length  2 /.3U  yard,  and  m  breadth  30  feet,  which  highway  in  one 
direction  lies  between  the  Bed  Sign  Post  public  house  and  the 
beginning  of  the  new  road  which  leads  to  Hine  bridge,  and  in  another 
direction  hes  between  the  .said  puhlic  house  and  a  cottage  on  the 
highway  near  the  gate  which  leads  to  Shidlington  Berry  Fann  in  the 
said  parish,  has  been  repaired. 


93 


lis 

103  &   109    Accounts  for  repairs  at  Arlsey  Bridge. 

104  &   105    Accounts  for  repairing  the  County  Hall. 

108    Gaoler's  account : — -For  privately  whipping  John  Stanton,  5s.,  &c. 

119  Gaoler's  quarterly  account: — For  privately  whipping  William  Mees, 
5s.  I'ulilicly  whipping  John  Brown  at  Woburn,  chaise  hire,  assistant 
and  other  expenses,  =£2  15s.  Publicly  whipping  Joseph  Bunyan  at 
Luton,  post  horses  and  expenses,  £2  17s.  6d.  To  hanging  by  the 
neck  and  other  expenses  attending  the  execution  of  Joseph  Merril, 
including  nourishment,  £4.  Privately  whipping  William  Taylor, 
OS.,  &c.,  &c. 

127  11th  May.  Account  of  Capt.  Oliver.  To  breakfast  for  70  privates 
belonging  to  the  Dunstable  and  Houghton  Volunteer  Company  (beer 
included),  £3  10s.  To  dinner  for  the  same  number  (beer  included), 
£7.  Paid  to  i\rr.  Thomas  Squires  for  flints,  5s.  6d.  "Pay"  to  70 
privates  at  one  shilling  each,  £3   10s.,  &c. 

133  Gaoler's  quarterly  account : — To  straw  for  the  prison,  £1  10s.  To 
removing  and  putting  on  board  the  "  Retribution  "  hulk  at  Woolwich 
the  following  convicts  for  transportation,  viz.  : — Isaac  Parker,  Robert 
Luck  and  John  Hill,  £18.  Providing  dinners  and  other  nourishment 
for  sick  prisoners,  &c. 

145  The  like.     To  jjroviding  Mary  Sullivan  and  Elizabeth  Reynolds  and  others, 

sick  peisons,  with  candle,  ponadoes  and  other  nourishments,  12s.  6d. 
To  publicly  whipping  Luke  Litchfield  at  the  carts  tail  at  Dunstable, 
chaise  cart  hire  and  other  expenses,  £2   18  9d.,  &c  ,  &c. 

149  Petition    of    Samuel   Binyon,    of    the   parish   of   Crantield,   shewing   that 

petitioner  is  an  ancient  parishioner  of  the  said  parish,  and  is  now  by 
age  (being  72  years  of  age)  and  infirmities  unable  to  support  himself 
and  his  wife,  that  he  has  now  allowed  him  3s.  per  week  from  the 
parish,  but  as  the  same  is  very  inadequate  to  keep  them,  being  both 
unable  to  work,  he  prays  for  an  advance  on  his  allowance,  "  having  a 
real  objection  to  being  put  in  the  workhouse,  which  is  in  a  very  filthy 
and  uncomfortable  situation,  as  he  has  always  been  till  lately  in  a  clean 
and  comfortable  situation  as  a  tradesman,"  or  to  be  provided  with  a 
more  comfortable  place  than  the  workhouse. 

155  Indictment  of  James  Woods,  otherwise  James  Gillett,  late  of  Wilden, 
labdrtT,  fur  falsely  ileclaring  to  John  Bird  that  he  was  not  troubled 
with  iits  and  obtaining  from  him  one  shilling  to  enlist  in  the  40th 
rciiimout  of  foot. 


119 

Presentment  that  Arlsey  Bridge,  the  last  part  whereof  to  the  middle  of    156 
the  stream  is  in  the  parish  of  Arlsey,  and  the  west  part  to  the   middle 
of  the  stream  is  in  the  parish  of  Henlow,  in  the  highway  there  leading 
from  Clifton  to  Stotfold,  is  in  decay,  and  that    the  inhabitants   of  the 
county  ought  to  repair  the  same. 

Presentment  that  there  is  a  public  bridge  in  the  parish  of  Luton  in  a  157 
public  footway  there  leading  from  Pepper  Lane,  otherwise  Pepper 
Alley,  otherwise  Rosemary  Lane,  otherwise  Louce  Lane,  otherwise 
Louse  Lane,  to  a  certain  moor  called  the.  Little  Moor  in  the  said 
parish,  and  that  Leonard  Hampson  of  the  said  parish,  gent.,  unlawfully 
took  down,  broke,  and  prostrated  the  said  bridge. 

Presentment  also  that  there  is  a  public  footway  in  the  parish  aforesaid, 
and  that  the  said  Leonard  Hampson  unlawfully  took  down  and 
prostrated  another  bridge  there  lying  in  the  said  footway  and  obstructed 
the  said  way. 


1809. 

11th  January.  List  of  prisoners: — James  Titmus  and  John  Lawrence,  23 
convicted  of  grand  larceny,  ordered  to  be  transported  for  7  years. 
Thomas  Young,  convicted  of  grand  larceny,  ordered  to  be  imprisoned 
and  kept  to  hard  labour  in  the  house  of  correction  for  2  months  and 
until  the  then  next  market  day  at  Ampthill,  and  to  be  there  and  then 
publicly  whipped  and  discharged. 

12th  April.      List  of  prisoners: — Jeremiah  Cole,  a  rogue  and  vagabond,    26 
ordered  to   be  imprisoned  for  one  month,  and  to  be  publicly  whipped 
at  Toddington  and  discharged. 

3rd   May.     Information    of  William   Biggs,    of    Paul's    Warden,    in  the    69 
County  of  Hertford,  miller,  that   Samuel   Leighton,  a   servant  of  his 
father,   John    Biggs,   stole    from    him    at    his   said    father's    house    at 
Bromham,  two  guineas  in  gold,  a  Beilford  bank-note,  and  some  silver. 

11th  January.  Certificate  by  James  Whitbread  and  William  Wilshire,  84 
that  they  have  viewed  an  ancient  higiiway,  leading  from  Warden 
Street  in  the  parish  of  Warden  to  the  town  ot  Shetford,  and 
particularly  a  certain  part  thereof  lying  in  the  parish  of  Warden, 
containing  in  length  242  yards  and  in  breadth  24  feet,  and  have  found 
the  same  repaired. 

11th  January.     Certificate  that  the  public  bi'idge  over  the  brook  called    85 
Shitlington    15iook    in    the  parish   of  Upper  (iravenhurst,  leading  from 
the   town  of  Shitlington    to    the   town   of   Upper   Giavenhurst    called 
Gravenhurst   Bridge,  for    the   length    of  15  feet  and  of  the  breadth  of 
10  feet  has  been  repaired. 


120 

86  11th  April.  Certificate  l\v  Joseph  Squire,  Thomas  Scott,  George  Pfall, 
William  Christmas,  Richard  Underwood,  Samuel  Gutteridge,  William 
Garrett,  and  Samuel  Shattock,  house-holders  and  inhalntants  of  the 
parish  of  Dunstahle,  that  the  dwelling  house  of  Thomas  Hallifax, 
situate  in  the  west  end  of  Dunstable,  is  henceforth  intended  to  be  used 
by  them  and  others,  Protestant  dissenters  from  the  Church  of  England 
called  Peculiar  P>aptists,  as  a  place  for  divine  worship. 

89  26th  Scpteml)er.  Certificate  by  William  Holdstock,  James  Newberry, 
William  Carn,  antl  Thomas  Spiggins,  househohlers  and  inhabitants  of 
the  parish  of  Streatley,  that  the  dwelling  house  of  Thomas  Blindell, 
situate  at  Streatley,  is  intended  to  be  used  by  them  and  others, 
Protestant  dissenters  from  the  Church  of  England,  as  a  place  for 
divine  worship. 

^^  4th  October.  Gaoler's  certificate  that  certain  enactments  for  the 
regulations  of  gaols  have  been  complied  with. 

94  25th  December.  A  return  of  the  Bedfordshire  IMilitia.  '  It  consists  of 
1  colonel,  1  lieutenant  colonel,  1  major,  5  captains,  6  lieutenants,  2 
ensigns,  1  captain  and  adjutant,  1  surgeon,  1  quartermaster,  1  sergeant 
major,  21  sergeants,  12  drummers  including  drum  major,  21  corporals 
and  383  privates. 

95a  Gaoler's  quarterly  account : — To  providing  sick  prisoners  with 
ponadoes,  broths,  meat,  &c.  To  removing  and  putting  on  board  the 
hulk  at  Woolwich,  William  Hall  and  James  Bennett,  guards  and 
expenses,  =£12.  Privately  whipping  James  Washington  and  James 
Denton,  10s.,  and  publicly  whipping  James  Washington  at  Bedford 
10s.  6d. 

108  Gaoler's  quarterly  account: — Publicly  whipping  James  Young  at 
Ampthill,  chaise,  &c.,  £1  Is. 

110  January.       Account    of    John    Kingston,     constal)le    of    Ampthill,    for 

apprehending    and     keeping    in    custody    ■    Lane,    who    was 

charged  on  suspicion  of  being  concerned  in  the  murder  of  James 
Crick  and  his  housekeeper  at  Lidlington. 

111  Easter  Sessions.     A   list  of  persons   convicted  of  transportable  offences 

and  sentenced  to  transportation,  hard  labour  or  confinement  in  the 
house  of  correction,  and  of  persons  capitally  convicted  who  have  been 
pardoned  on  condition  of  transportation  or  imprisonment  at  the  lent 
and  summer  assizes  in  the  year  1808. 

123  Gaoler's  quarterly  account: — Publicly  whipping  Jeremiiih  Coles  at 
Toddington,  chaise  ami  all  expenses,  £2  Is,  Publicly  whipping 
James  Deacon  and  Richard  Childs  at  Ampthill,  chaise  hire  and 
expenses,  X2  9s.  6d.,  &c. 


121 

_  ntiiiir 

discontinue  allowances  to 


Account   of  T.   Webb  : — Printing   200   sheet   post   letters  to   j^arishes  to    126 

to  Militia  men  volunteering,  &c. 


Indictment  of  Thomas  Young,  of  the   parish  of  Maulden,   labourer,   for    170 
stealing  two  stocks  of  bees,  value  10s.  ;  six  pounds  of  honey,  value  5s, ; 
one  pound  of  bees-wax^  value  lOd. ;  and  two  straw  bee  hives,  value  Is. 

Presentment  that  there  is  an  ancient  highway  leading  from  Warden  179 
Street,  in  the  parish  of  Warden,  to  the  town  of  Shefford,  a  certain  part 
whereof  adjoining  to  the  town  of  Southill,  lying  in  the  parish  of 
Warden,  containing  in  length  242  yards  and  in  breadth  24  feet,  is  in 
decay,  and  that  the  inhabitants  of  the  parish  of  Warden  ought  to 
repair  the  same. 

Presentment  that  a  public  bridge  over  the  brook  called  Shitlington  180 
Erook,  in  the  parish  of  Upper  Gravenhurst,  leading  from  the  town  of 
yhitlington  to  the  town  of  Upper  Gravenhurst,  is  in  decay,  and  that 
Benjamin  Yates,  of  the  parish  of  St.  John's,  Clerkenwell,  in  the 
County  of  Middlesex,  gent.,  ought,  by  reason  of  the  tenure  of  his 
lands  and  tenements,  to  repair  the  same. 

Old  Newspapers  and  Gazettes.  181 — 182 


i8io. 

2nd  January.  Order  by  Samuel  Whitbread,  Esq.,  and  James  Webster, 
clerk,  justices  of  the  peace.  Recites  that  having  u})on  view  found  that 
a  certain  part  of  a  public  highway  in  the  parish  of  Sandy,  lying 
between  a  certain  turnpike  road  in  the  said  parish,  commonly  called 
the  Great  North  Road  ami  the  village  of  Sandy,  beginning  at  and 
leading  from  a  certain  point  or  part  of  the  said  footway,  which  lies 
between  two  trees  in  the  parish  of  Sand 7,  across  the  mill  water  or  mill 
stream,  along  a  private  carriage  road  or  lane,  now  or  heretofore  called 
Christmas  Lane,  and  across  the  lands  and  grounds  of  Dame  Elizabeth 
Monoux,  widow,  into  the  churchyard,  and  belonging  to  the  parish 
church  of  Sandy  in  the  said  parish,  for  the  length  of  one  furlong  and 
thirty  poles  or  thereabouts,  and  particularly  described  in  the  plan 
annexed  ;  and  being  that  part  which  is  in  the  said  plan  described  to 
be  between  two  trees  and  Sandy  churchyard  as  ilescribed  in  the  said 
plan,  may  be  diverted  and  turned  so  as  to  make  the  same  more 
commodious  to  the  public.  And  having  viewed  a  course  proposed  for 
the  new  footway  in  lieu  thereof  tlirough  the  lands  and  grounds  of 
iJame  Mary  Paine,  widow,  the  Honourable  Samuel  Henley  Ungley  and 
France-s  his  wife,  Richard  Franklin  and  Judith  Reddall,  his  wife,  and 
Lucy  Monoux,  spinster,  into  a  certain  part  of  the  village  of  Sandy, 
commonly  called  Jeeves's  Lane,  of  the  length  of  one  furlong,  24  poles 
aiul  4  yards  or  thereabouts,  and  of  the  breadth  of  5  feet  or  thereabouts, 
particularly  described  in  the  plan  annexed ;  and  having  received 
evidence  uf  the  consent  of  the  said  Dame  Mary  Paine,  Samuel  Henley 


122 

Ongley  and  Frances,  his  wife,  and  Eichard  Franklin  and  Judith 
Reddall,  his  wife,  and  Lucy  Monoux  to  the  said  new  footway  heing 
made  through  their  lands,  they  order  that  the  said  footway  be  diverted 
and  turned  through  the  lands  aforesaid. 

2  The  plan  mentioned  above. 

3  30th  December,  1809.     The  consent  mentioned  above. 

6  15th  January.  Notice  by  George  Cardale,  rector  of  Milbrooke,  that  he 
intends  to  apply  to  the  justices  at  the  quarter  sessions  to  have  two 
persons  appointed,  and  a  third  person  appointed  by  such  two,  as 
arbitrators,  by  virtue  of  an  Act  of  35  George  III.,  for  enquiring  and 
ascertaining  from  the  London  Gazette  the  average  price  of  a 
AVinchester  bushel  of  good  marketable  wheat  within  the  county  of 
Bedford  for  the  space  of  fourteen  years  next  preceding  such  quarter 
sessions,  in  order  that  the  yearly  rent  or  sum  which,  by  virtue  of  the 
said  Act,  is  made  payable  to  the  rector  of  Milbrooke  may  be  increased 
or  diminished,  and  declared  by  an  Order  of  the  said  court. 

7 11  &  21    Documents  referring  to  the  same  matter.     See  also  post  No.  121. 

12  28th  April.  Certificate  by  W.  Wilshire  and  Eichard  Parkes,  justices  of 
the  peace,  that  having  upon  view  found  that  a  certain  highway  in  the 
hamlet  of  Stopsley,  leading  from  the  village  of  Stopsley,  in  the  parish 
of  Luton  to  Offley,  of  the  length  of  43  poles  or  thereabouts,  lying 
between  the  land  of  Richard  Edridge,  calletl  Hither  Benwells,  and 
proceeding  eastwardly  and  northwardly  to  the  south-west  corner  of  a 
close  of  Thomas  Moores,  called  Innings,  and  particularly  described  in 
the  plan  annexed,  may  be  diverted  and  turned  so  as  to  make  the  same 
nearer  to  the  public.  And  having  viewed  a  course  proposed  for  the 
said  new  highway  in  lieu  thereof,  through  the  lands  and  grounds  of 
the  said  Richard  Edridge,  of  the  length  of  32  poles  or  thereabouts, 
and  of  the  breadth  of  30  feet,  particularly  described  in  the  plan 
annexed,  commencing  at  the  south  side  of  a  close  of  the  said  Richard 
Edridge,  called  Hither  Renwells,  and  proceeding  northwardly  across 
the  said  close,  and  also  across  another  close  of  the  said  Richard  Edridge, 
called  Further  Benwells,  to  the  south-east  corner  of  a  close  of 
Thomas  Morris,  called  Innings,  where  it  enters  the  ancient  highway. 
And  having  received  evidence  of  the  consent  of  the  said  Richard 
Edridge  to  the  said  new  highway  being  made  through  his  lands,  they 
order  that  the  said  old  highway  be  diveited  and  turned  as  aforesaid  ; 
and  in  compensation,  exchange  and  satisfaction  to  the  said  Richard 
Edridge  f(jr  the  ground  over  which  the  road  is  intended  to  be 
diverted  and  turned,  they  assign  and  exchange  to  and  with  ihe  said 
Ricliard  Edridge  the  site  and  soil  of  so  much  of  the  said  old  liighway 
as  is  hereby  directed  to  be  diverted  and  turned  and  intended  to  bo 
stopped  up. 

13    The  plan  mentioned  above. 

\.{    The  consent  menti<jned  aliove. 


123 

28th  April.  Order  by  AVilliam  Wilshire  and  Richard  Parkes,  that  having  15 
upon  view  found  that  a  certain  part  of  a  certain  public  footway  within 
the  handet  ()f  Stopsley,  in  the  parish  of  Luton,  leading  from  the 
village  of  Lilley  to  the  town  of  Luton,  containing  in  length  34  perches 
or  thereabouts,  through  and  over  certain  land  of  John  Sowerby,  Esq., 
in  the  said  handet  of  Stopsley,  commencing  at  the  west  corner  of  a 
close  of  the  said  John  Sowerby,  in  the  parish  of  Offley,  called  Great 
Hayes,  and  proceeding  south-westwardly  over  part  of  a  close  of  the 
said  John  Sowerby,  in  the  said  hamlet  of  Stopsley,  called  the  Thrift, 
to  the  west  end  of  the  same  close  particularly  desciibed  in  the  plan 
hereunto  annexed,  and  thereon  coloured  red,  may  be  diverted  and  turned 
so  as  to  make  the  same  more  commodious  to  the  public.  And  having 
viewed  a  course  proposed  for  the  new  public  footway .  in  lieu  thereof, 
through  and  over  the  lands  and  grounds  of  the  said  John  Sowerby,  in 
the  hamlet  of  Stopsley,  of  the  length  of  45  perches  or  thereabouts, 
particularly  described  in  the  plan  annexed,  and  thereon  colored  blue  '; 
commencing  at  the  north  corner  of  a  close  of  the  said  John  Sowerby' 
in  the  hamlet  of  Stopsley,  called  the  Thrift,  and  proceeding  south- 
westwardly  and  southwardly  along  part  of  the  north-west  end  of  the 
said  close,  and  then  entering  the  ancient  footway  at  the  point  where 
the  said  part  of  the  said  footway  hereby  diverted  and  turned 
terminates.  And  having  received  evidence  of  the  consent  of  the  said 
John  Sowerby  to  the  said  new  public  footway  being  made  through  his 
lauds,  they  order  that  the  said  public  footway  be  diverted  and  turned 
as  aforesaid,  and  that  the  said  old  footway  be  vested  in  the  said 
John  Sowerby. 

The  plan  mentioned  above.  ,  ^ 

io 

The  consent  mentioned  above.  ly 

10th  January.  List  of  prisoners  :— Joseph  Bunyan,  the  elder,  Joseph  47 
Lunyan,  the  younger,  and  William  Bunyan,  convicted  of  grand  larceny 
ordered  to  be  transported  for  seven  years.  James  Fuller,  convicted  of 
larceny,  ordered  to  be  imprisoned  and  kept  to  hard  labour  for  three 
months,  and  to  be  publicly  ^^  hipped  at  the  then  next  market  dav  at 
the  town  of  Bedford. 


Lnd  May.  List  of  prisoners  :— John  Allday,  otherwise  Day,  convicted 
of  larceny,  ordered  to  be  imprisoned  for  six  months,  and  to  be 
publicly  whipped  on  the  next  market  day  at  Ampthill  and  discharged 


49 


9th   April.      Information    of   Thomas   Yorke,   of   Shelton,   yeoman,   that    i09 
Ihomas  Sluphaid,  with  whom  he  lodged,  stole  from  him  a  -dlt  metal 
watch.  ° 


6th  July.  Certificate  by  Edward  Piatt,  gent.,  surveyor  of  the  public 
carriage  roads  and  highways  in  the  parish  of  Eversholt,  appointed  by 
the  commissioners  under  the  Act  of  46  George  III.  for  enclosing  land's 
in  the  parish  of  Eversholt,  that  the  said  roads  have  been  formed  and 
completed. 


118 


124 

119  ^Midsummer    Sessions.     Certificate    by    Edward    Tanqueray   and    James 

Horseman,  that  the  public  carriage  roads  leading  thro'  the  pari.-^h  of 
J]versholt,  set  out  by  the  commissioners  under  the  Act  of  46  George  III. 
for  enclosing  the  lands  in  the  parish  of  Eversholt,  are  formed  and 
completed. 

120  29th  September.     Certificate  by  Edward  Tanqueray  and  George  Cardale, 

that  they  have  viewed  an  -ancient  highway  leading  from  the  town  of 
Harlington  to  the  town  of  Barton,  lying  iu  the  parish  of  Streatley, 
containing  in  length  338  poles  and  in  breadth  12  feet,  where  the 
ground  between  the  fences  enclosing  the  same  will  admit  thereof  ;  and 
have  found  the  same  repaired. 

121  10th  July.     Certificate   by  John  Fellows,   Thomas  Thorpe  and  .lames 

Lilburne,  that  they  find  the  average  price  of  a  Winchester  bushel  of 
wheat  in  the  county  of  Bedford  for  the  past  fourteen  years  was  9s.  3d. 

122  1st  October.     Certificate  by  William  Briden,  surgeon,  of  Great  Coram 

Street,  Russell  Square,  London,  that  William  Goodman,  of  Marchmont 
Street,  Russell  Square,  London,  since  Monday,  24th  September,  is 
suffering  with  "  natural  small  pox." 

123  Gaoler's  Certificate  as  to  the  state  of  the  gaol. 

124  25th  December.     A  return  of  the  Bedfordshire  Militia.     It  consists    of 

464  officers  and  men. 

126  Gaoler's  quarterly  account: — Removing  and  putting  on  board  the 
"  Retribution  "  hulk  at  AVoolwich,  James  Titmus  and  John  Lawrence, 
guards  and  other  expenses,  £12.  Publicly  whipping  William  Holt  at 
Dunstable,  post  chaise  and  other  expenses,  £2   18s.  9d. 

146  Easter  Sessions.  Gaoler's  quarterly  account: — Removing  Joseph 
Bunyan  the  elder,  Joseph  Bunyan  the  younger,  and  William  Bunyan 
on  board  the  "  Retribution  "  hulk  at  Woolwich,  in  order  to  be 
transported  for  seven  years,  £15.  Publicly  whipping  James  Fuller  in 
the  market  at  Bedford,  10s.  6d. 

164  Michaelmas  Sessions.  To  putting  on  board  the  "  Retribution "  hulk  at 
Woolwich,  Robert  George,  a  convict  under  sentence  of  transportation 
for  fourteen  years,  £6  12s.  6d. 

184  2nd  May.  Presentment  that  there  is  an  ancient  highway  leading  from 
the  town  of  Little  Staughton  to  the  turnpike  road  to  Beilford  through 
part  of  the  parish  of  Colmworth,  beginning  at  a  brook-ford  situate  or 
near  the  place  called  Whitebrook  Fielil,  in  the  parish  of  Colmworth, 
and  going  through  part  of  the  village  of  Colmworth  and  by   the  fields 


125 

called  Shelford  Way  and  Three  Score  Acre  Field,  and  up  Pennysend 
and  by  a  field  called  Copley  to  the  turnpike  road  leading  to  Bedford, 
all  in  the  parish  of  Colmwortli,  containing  in  length  3,930  yards,  and 
in  breadth  18  feet,  is  in  decay,  and  that  the  inhabitants  of  the  parish 
of  Colmworth  ought  to  repair  the  same. 


Indictment  of  JNIary  Fensum,  wife  of  George  Fensum,  of  Luton,  lahonier,    F^S 
for  stealing  240  yards  of  straw  plait,  value   60s.,  the  goods  of  James 
Irons ;  and  of  Elizabeth  Day,  wife  of  John  Day,  of  the  same  place, 
labourer,  for  receiving  the  same. 


8th  April.      Presentment  that  there  is  an  ancient  highway  leading  from    189 
the  town  of  Harlington  to  the  town  of  Barton,  the  whole  of  which, 
lying  in  the  parish  of  Streatley,  containing  in  length  338  poles,  and  in 
breadth  12  feet,  is  in  decay,  and  that  the  inhabitants  of  the  parish  of 
Streatley  ought  to  repair  the  same. 


3rd  April.     Indenture  of  apprenticeship  of  William  Lilley,  of  the  parish    200 
of  St.  Cuthbert,  Bedford,  to  James  Hustler  of  Shetibrd,  mason. 


i8ii. 

IGth   January.     On    Appeal   by    Moses  Wilson,   the    Court  [of   Quarter    3 
Sessions]  decides  as  follows  : — 

1st  Question. — Whether  occupiers  of  lands  are  liable  to  perform 
statute  duty  on  new  roads  set  out  by  the  Commissioners  before 
they  are  furmed  and  completed'? 

Occupiers  are  not  liable  to  perform  statute  duty  on  new  roads  set 
out  by  the  Commissioners,  before  they  are  formed  and 
completed. 

2nd  Question. —  Whether  occupiers  of  lands  are  liable  to  perform 
statute  duty  on  such  old  roads  as  existed  before  the  Enclosure 
Act  and  are  continued  by  the  Commissioners  ? 

Occupiers  continue  liable  to  the  repair  of  such  of  the  old  roa-.ls  as 
are  continued  and  set  out  by  the  Commissioners. 

3rd  Question. — AVhether  Commissioners  have  power  by  their 
Surveyor  to  call  for  the  performance  of  statute  duty? 

The  Surveyor  appointed  by  the  Conmiissioners  is  not  under  that 
Authority  alone  cinpowen'tl  to  call  on  the  occupiers  to 
perform  statute   duty. 


126 

24  2nd    Septemher.     Order    by    i^anuiel    Whitbread    and    Ricliard    Parkes, 

Esquires,  justices  of  the  peace,  reciting  tliat,  having  viewed  a  certain 
part  of  a  coniuion  footway,  leading  from  the  town  street  of  Luton  in  a 
north-eastwardly  direction  down  Barber's  Lane,  in  the  township  of 
Luton,  in  the  said  hundred  (Flitt),  lying  in  part  Ijetween  the  lands  and 
grounds  of  Leonard  Hanipson,  of  Luton,  Esq.,  and  James  Gutteridge, 
of  Eaton  Green,  in  the  said  parisii,  gent.,  and  on  the  remaining  part 
between  the  lands  and  grounds  of  tlu^  said  Leonard  Hanipson  for  the 
length  of  432|  yards,  and  particularly  described  between  the  letters 
A  and  B  in  the  plan  annexed,  may  be  diverted  and  turned  so  as  to 
make  the  same  nearer  and  more  commodious  to  the  public  ;  and  having 
viewed  a  course  proposed  for  the  new  footway  in  lieu  thereof  through 
the  lands  and  grounds  of  the  said  Leonard  ILanipson  and  James 
(Uitteridge,  respectively,  of  the  length  of  427i  yards  or  thereabouts, 
and  of  the  breadth  of  6  feet  or  thereabouts,  particularly  described  by 
the  name  of  the  new  footway  between  the  said  letters  A  and  B  in  the 
plan  annexed,  and  liaving  received  evidence  of  the  respective  consents 
of  the  said  Leonard  Hainpson  and  James  Gutteridge  for  the  said  new 
footway  to  be  made  through  their  lands  and  ground  before  described, 
they  now  order  that  the  said  footway  be  diverted  and  turned  as 
aforesaid ;  they  also  order  that  so  much  of  another  public  footway  in 
the  said  place,  between  the  letters  C  and  D  on  the  annexed  plan, 
leading  from  Rosemary  Lane,  in  the  said  parish  and  town  of  Luton, 
as  goes  across  the  land  of  the  said  Leonard  Hanipson  to  and  into  the 
said  old  highway  called  Barbors  Lane,  be  diverted  into  the  said  new 
footway  set  out  at  the  mark  C  in  the  said  plan,  and  that  the  same  so 
leading  to  the  said  new  footway  be  stopped  up. 

25  The  plan  mentioned  above. 

2G    The  consent  mentioned  above. 

32  9th  October.     Order  at  Quarter  Sessions  that  the  inhabitants  of  the  parish 

of  Wootton  pay  a  fine  of  £700  for  not  repairing  a  certain  part  of  an 
ancient  highway  leading  from  the  parish  of  Marston  Moretaiue  to  the 
town  of  Bedford  situate  in  the  parish  of  ^^'o(ltton,  commencing  at  the 
end  of  a  lane  in  the  parish  of  ]\Iarston  ^loretaine  called  Hoo  Lane, 
and  extending  to  a  lane  in  the  parish  of  Kempston  called  Kempston 
Lane,  and  leading  towards  Kempston  Hardwick,  containing  in  lengtii 
3,278  yards  or  thereabouts,  and  in  breadth  11  yartls  or  thereabouts, 
whereof  they  are  indicted  and  convicted. 

33  9th    October.     Order    at    Quaiter    Sessions    that    the    inhabitants   of   the 

hamlet  of  Leegrave,  in  the  parish  of  Luton,  pay  a  fine  of  i!517  for  not 
repairing  a  certain  part  of  an  ancient  highway  leading  from  the  town 
of  Dunstable  to  the  town  of  Luton,  situate  in  the  said  hamlet  of 
Leegrave,  beginning  at  or  near  the  boundary  of  the  said  hamlet  of 
Leegrave  next  the  parish  of  Houghton  Regis  and  ending  at  or  near  the 
boundary  of  the  said  hamlet  of  Leegrave  next  the  hamlet  of  Sunbury- 
cuni-Biscdtt,  in  the  Parish  of  Luton,  and  containing  in  length  1  mile 
864  yards,  and  in  breadth  40  feet,  whereof  they  are  indicted  and 
convicted. 


127 

11th    March.     Order    at    Petty    Sessions    by    Ricliard    Parkes    and    the    34 
Kev.    John    Hawkins,    reciting    that    Elisha    ThiusselJ,    one    of    the 
surveyors  of  the  liighways  of  the  hamlet  of  Sunbuiy-cnin-Biscott,  ha-i 
infonned  them  that  there  is  a  conrmon  highway  in  the  parish  of  Luton, 
leading  from  Luton  to  Bedford,  a  certain  part' whereof  lies  between  a 
certain  place  where  the  said  highway  is  crossed  by  the  road  leading 
from  Hitchin  to  Sunbury,  and  a  certain  other  place  lying  at  the  south" 
east  corner  of  the  said  hamlet  of  8unbury-cum-Biscott  where  the  sai<l 
highway  enters  wholly  into  the  hamlet 'of  Stopsley,  being  in  length 
1  mile  5  furlongs  and  35  links,  one  side  of  which  last  mentioned  pavt 
of  the  said  highway,  adjoiinng  the  hamlet  of  Sunbury-cum-Biscott,  lies 
within  the  hamlet  of  Snnbury-cum-Biscott,  and  ought  to  be  repairetl 
by  the  said  hamlet,  and  the  other  side  of  the  same  part  of  the  said 
highway,  adjoining  the  hamlet  of  Stopsley,  lies  within  the  hamlet  of 
Stopsley,  and  ought  to  be  repaired  by  the  said  hamlet.      He  also  stated 
that  the  repair  of  such  part  of  the  said  highway  was  very  inconvenient 
to  the  said  hamlets,  and  the  want  thereof  detrimental  to  the  public, 
and  prayed  that  such  part  of  the  said  highway  might  be  allotted  and 
apportioned  for  the  repair  thereof  by  the  justices  aforesaid  to  the  said 
hamlets,  in  the  manner  directed  by  an  Act  of  34  George  IIL,  for  more 
effectually  repairing  of  such  parts  of  the  highways  of  this  kingdom  as 
are  to  be  repaired  by  two  parishes.     The  justices  now  order  that  the 
said  highway  shall  be  divided  in  the  following  manner,  viz.,  that  at 
the  distance  of  6  furlongs,  20  poles  and  17  links  measuring  southward 
from  the  place  marked  A  in  the  plan  annexed,  at  which  place  the  said 
highway  is  crossed  by  the  road  leading  from  Hitchin  to  Sunbury,  and 
where  the  same  highway  leads  into  the  parish  of  Streatle}^,  there  shall 
be  erected  a  post  or  stone  on  the  side  of  the  said  highway,  11  poles  to 
the  south  of  the  34th  milestone  from  London.     And  the  whole  of  the 
said  highway  from  the  place  marked  A  in  the  said  plan  to  such  post  or 
stone  shall  be  from  time  to  time  and  at  all  times  hereafter  repaired  by 
the  said  hamlet  of  Sunbury-cum-Biscott.     And  the  whole  of  the  said 
highway  from  such  post  or  stone  to  the  place   marked   B  in   the  said 
plan,  at  the  south-east  corner  of  the  said  hamlet  of  Sunbury-cum-Biscot, 
where  the  sai.l  highway  enters  wholly  into  the  said  hamlet  of  Stops]e\,' 
shall  be  from  time   to  time  and  at  all  times  hereafter  rei)aired   by  th" 
said  handet  uf  Stopsley. 

The   plan   mentioned  above.  o.- 

,  Of) 

1st    ^'ovember.      Order    at   a    general     meeting    of    the    lieutenancy    of    37 
hedfordshu'e  that  the  remuneration  of  thirtv  guineas  he  allowed  to  each 
of  the  two  adjutants  of  the  two  regiments  of  local  Militia,  Mr.  Bailey 
and  Mr.  Mitchell  for  their  trouble  and  expense  in  attending  sub-divisio'n 
meetings  for  the  purposes  of  the  local  Militia. 


imes 


-/til  November.  Order  by  Samuel  Whitbread  and  the  Rev.  -Lunr. 
Webster  justices  of  the  peace,  reciting  that  having  found  that  a  certain 
part  ot  a  bri.ile  way,  in  the  parish  of  Saixly,  lying  between  a  hi-diwav 
in  the  said  i)ansh  commonly  called  Swan  Lane,  and  the  hamlet  of 
Beeston,  ,n  the  parish  of  Sandy,  for  the  length  of  1  furlong  an.l 
3b  poles  or  thereabouts,  an.l  particularly  described  in  the  plan  annexed, 
and  being  that  part  of  the  said  bridle  way   which  in   the  said  ])lan  is 


128 

described  to  lie  between  the  letters  A  and  B,  and  to  lead  out  of  Swan 
Lane  and  extend  as  far  as  the  south  side  of  a  close  of  arable  land  called 
or  known  by  the  name  of  Mill  Garden,  near  Sandy  Mill,  in  the  said 
parish  of  Sandy,  may  be  diverted  and  turned  so  as  to  make  the  same 
more  comnioilious  to  the  public,  and  having  viewed  a  course  proposed 
for  the  new  bridle  way  in  lieu  thereof  through  the  lands  and  grounds 
of  the  Hon.  Samuel  Henley  Ongley,  of  the  length  of  two  furlongs  and 
sixteen  poles  or  thereabouts,  and  of  the  breadth  of  twenty  feet  or 
thereabouts,  particularly  described  in  the  plan  annexed,  and  having 
received  evidence  of  the  consent  of  the  said  Samuel  Henley  Ongley  to 
the  said  new  bridle  way  beirig  made  through  his  lands,  they  order  that 
the  said  bridle  Avay  be  diverted  and  turned  as  aforesaid. 

43  The  plan  mentioned  above. 

44  Duplicate  plan. 

45  Order  that  the  old  bridleway   mentioned  above  be  sto[)ped   up,    and   the 

land  and  soil  thereof  be  vested  in  the  said  Samuel  Henley  Ongley. 

46  The  consent  mentioned  above. 

47  T^ndated.     Order  by  Samuel  Whitbreail  and  James  AVebster,  that  having 

viewed  the  several  footways  described  in  the  plan  annexed,  they  order 
that  the  old  footway,  being  of  the  length  of  one  furlong,  30  poles  and 
of  the  breadth  of  five  feet  upon  a  medium,  be  stopped  up,  and  the 
land  and  soil  vested  in  the  Hon.  Samuel  Henley  Ongley. 

48  The    plan    mentioned  above,    "being  a  plan   shewing  the  situation   of  a 

footway  and  bridleway  over  the  estate  of  the  Hon.  Mr.  Ongley  in  the 
parish  of  Sandy,  intended  to  be  stopped  up  and  discontinued,  and  of 
those  (f<ic)  to  be  set  out  and  used  in  their  stead,  18 11-" 

139  7th  January.  Complaint  of  William  Bigg,  of  the  parish  of  Potten, 
shopkeeper,  against  the  Rev.  Edward  Drax  Free  for  assaulting  him 
when  he  presented  his  bill,  and  using  "opprobrious  language,  calling 
him  villain,  rascal,  scoundrel,  cheat  and  methodist." 

170  30th  March.  "Measurement"  of  a  public  road  or  highway  in  the 
parish  of  C'lophill,  in  the  county  of  Bedford,  commencing  at  an  old 
enclosure  in  tlie  parish  of  Hayries  in  the  occupation  of  George  Smith, 
and  thence  proceeding  in  a  south-easterly  direction  to  the  village  of 
C'lophill,  where  it  enters  the  town  street  ;  "15  poles,  half  in  the  parish 
of  Haynes  and  half  in  the  parish  of  Clophill,  in  a  passable  state  of 
repair  ;  20  poles  entirely  in  the  parish  of  Clophill  very  bad  ;  2  furlongs, 
12  poles  entirely  in  the  parish  of  Clophill  to  the  turning  leading  to 
Chicksands  Wood,  about  30  feet  wide,  in  a  passable  state  ;  36  poles 
between  Old  Enclosures  on  one  si<le  and  New  Inclosures  on  the  other 
side,  good  road  ;  36  poles  entirely  between  Old  Enclosures  of 
sufficient  width  but  not  formed,  very  bad  ;  20  poles,  road  only  13  feet 
wide,  very  bad  ;  2  furlongs,  39  jioles,  road  into  the  town  street  of 
Clophill  only  15  feet  wide,  on  the  average  not  so  bad  as  the  last." 


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7th  August.     Certificate  by  John  Fellowes,   John  Thorpe,  and  Joseph    177 
Aris  that  the  average  price  of  a   Winchester   bushel  of  wheat  in  the 
county  of  Bedford  for  the  last  fourteen  years  is  9s.  6d. 

Gaoler's  quartely  return  as  to  the  state  of  the  prison.  178 

25th  December.     A  return   of  the   1st  Regiment  of  Bedfordshire  local    181 
Militia.     It  consists  of  1061  officers  and  men. 

25th  December.     A   return   of  the  2nd  Regiment  of  Bedfordshire  local    182 
Militia.     It  consists  of  819  officers  and  men. 


A  return  of  the  Bedfordshire  Militia  now  remaining  embodied  on  the  war    183 

establishment    by    the    King's    warrant    for    calling    out    the    Militia, 
bearing  date  13th  March,  1803.     It  consists  of  459  officers  and  men. 

Account  of  James  Lilburne  for  building  Harrowden  Bridge.  195 

Gaoler's    quarterly    account: — To    providing   Paul    Freshwater,  &c.,    201 
with  ponadoes,   brotlis,   teas    and   other   nourishments   for  six   weeks, 
£2    8s.     Post    chaise  to  Ampthill  with  John  Allday   to  be  publicly 
whipped,  £2  3s.  6d. 

Gaoler's  quarterly  account : — To  removing  and  putting  on  the  hulk    233 
at    Woolwich,    William    Mizzledene,    a    convict    for    transportation, 
£6  12s.  6d.,  &c. 

Gaoler's  quarterly  account : — To  publicly  whipping  Richard  Albone    237 
(sic)    at    the    cart's    tail    100    yards    at    liedford,    XI     Is.     Privately 
whipping  James  Kitely,  5s.,  &c. 

1st  November.     Estimate  for  completing  the  public  carriage  road  in  the    244 
parish  of  Wootton  leading  from  the  parish  of  Kempston  to  the  parish 
of  Marston. 

Presentment  that  the  public  bridge  over  Harrowden  brook  in  the  hamlet  279 
of  Eastcotts  in  the  parish  of  Cardington,  leading  from  the  town  of 
Shefford  to  the  town  of  Bedford,  called  Harrowden  Bridge,  being  a 
common  highway,  for  the  length  of  40  feet,  and  of  the  breadth  of 
16  feet,  is  in  decay,  and  that  the  inhabitants  of  the  county  ought  to 
repair  the  same. 

Presentment  that  there  is  an  ancient  highway  leading  from  the  parish  of    280 
Marston   Moretaine  to  the  town  of    IJedford,    a   certain    part   whereof 
lying  in  the  parish  of  Wootton,  commencing  at  the  end  of  a  lane  in 
the   parish    of    Marston    Moretaine,   called    Hoo    Lane,   and  extending 
to  a  lane   in  the  parish  of  Kempston,  called  Kempstone  Lane,  and 


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leading  towards  Kempston  Hardwicke,  containing  in  length  3278  yards 
or  thereabouts,  and  in  breadth  11  yards  or  thereabouts,  is  in  decay, 
and  that  the  inhabitants  of  the  parish  of  Wootton  ought  to  repair  the 
same. 

281  Presentment  that  there  is  an  ancient  highway  leading  from  the  town  of 
Dunstable  to  the  town  of  Luton,  a  certain  part  whereof  lying  in  the 
hamlet  of  Leegrave,  in  the  parish  of  Luton,  beginning  at  or  near  the 
boundary  of  the  hamlet  of  Leegrave  next  the  parish  of  Houghton 
Regis,  and  ending  at  or  near  the  boundary  of  the  said  hamlet  next  the 
hamlet  of  Sunbury-cum-Biscott,  in  the  parish  of  Luton,  containing  in 
length  I  mile  864  yards,  and  in  breadth  40  feet,  is  in  decay,  and  that 
the  inhabitants  of  the  hamlet  of  Leegrave  ought  to  repair  the  same. 

283  Indictment  of  Francis  Miller,  of  the  parish  of  Cranfield,  yeoman,  for 
rescuing  a  cow  from  the  common  pound  of  the  manor  of  Cranfield. 

285  Presentment  that  there  is  an  ancient  highway  leading  from  the  village  of 

Southill  to  the  village  of  Clophill,  a  certain  part  whereof  lying  in  the 
parish  of  Haynes,  commencing  at  the  eastern  corner  of  a  wood,  called 
Chicksands  Wood,  and  ending  where  the  same  highway  enters  the 
parish  of  Clophill,  containing  in  length  1107  yards,  and  in  breadth 
33  feet  or  thereabouts,  is  in  decay,  and  that  the  inhabitants  of  the 
parish  of  Haynes  ought  to  repair  the  same. 

286  Presentment  that  there  is  an  ancient  highway  leading  from  the  town  of 

Harlington  to  the  town  of  Hexton,  a  certain  part  whereof  lying  in  the 
parish  of  Barton  from  the  beginning  of  the  said  parish  adjoining  the 
parish  of  Streatly,  to  the  turnpike  road  leading  from  the  town  of 
Silsoe  to  the  town  of  Luton,  containing  287  poles  in  length,  and 
12  feet  in  breadth,  is  in  decay,  and  that  the  inhabitants  of  the  parish 
of  Barton  ought  to  repair  the  same. 

287  Presentment  that  there  is  an  ancient  highway  leading  from  the  village  of 

Hawnes  to  the  village  of  Clophill,  a  certain  part  whereof  situate  in 
in  the  parish  of  Hawnes,  commencing  at  an  old  enclosure  in  the  said 
parish  in  the  occupation  of  George  Smith,  and  thence  proceeding  in  a 
south-eastwardly  direction  to  the  village  of  Clophill  aforesaid, 
containing  in  length  15  poles,  and  of  the  breadth  of  10  feet  or 
thereabouts,  is  in  decay,  and  that  the  inhabitants  of  the  parish  of 
Hawnes  ought  to  repair  the  same. 

288  Presentment  that  there  is  an  ancient  highway  leading  from  the  village  of 

Hawnes  to  the  village  of  INIalden,  a  certain  part  whereof  lying  in  the 
parish  of  Clophill,  commencing  at  an  old  enclosure  in  the  parish  of 
Hawnes,  in  the  occupation  of  George  Smith,  and  thence  proceeding 
in  a  south-eastwardly  direction  to  the  village  of  (clophill  aforesaid, 
where  it  enters  the  town  street  there,  containing  in  length  1  mile 
2  furlongs  and  30  poles,  and  of  various  breadths,  the  greatest  being 
30  feet  and  the  least  breadth  13  feet,  is  in  decay,  and  that  the 
inhabitants  of  the  parish  of  Clophill  ought  to  repair  the  same. 


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17th  October.  Letter  from  T.  Mitchell  to  John  Miller,  justice  of  the  297 
peace.  There  is  a  young  man  confined  in  the  county  gaol  by  the  name 
of  John  Field,  under  a  charge  of  beating  his  servant;  he  was 
committed  a  short  time  since  by  Mr.  Wiltshire.  Mr.  Field  is  of  a 
respectable  family  near  Sheflford,  and  humbly  begs  you  will  ameliorate 
his  situation  by  allowing  him  to  have  other  nourishment  than  the 
common  gaol  allowance  ;  he  begs  to  be  allowed  a  little  port  wine  at 
proper  times,  and  for  his  friends  to  have  free  access  to  him. 

Letter  from  John  Field  to  John  Miller,  justice  of  the  peace,  asking  to  be    298 
allowed  to  see  his  friends  and  to  have  some  wine  occasionally  at  his 
own  expense. 

Copies  of  the  London  Gazette  and  Northampton  Mercury.  306 — 7 


l8l2. 

8th  April.     Order  for  the  discharge  of  William  Lilley  from  his  apprentice-    12 
ship  with  James  Hustler,  of  Campton-cum-Sheflford,  mason,  on  account 
of  neglect  of  duties  by  the  said  William. 

See  also  No.  144. 

18th  August.  Order  by  George  Cardale  and  James  Horseman,  justices  of  27 
peace.  Reciting  that  having  found  that  a  certain  part  of  a  highway  in 
the  parish  of  Tingrith,  known  by  the  name  of  Watery  Lane,  lying 
between  a  cottage  called  Higham  Cottage  and  the  north-east  corner 
of  a  farm  "  honiestall "  in  the  said  parish,  in  the  occupation  of 
Robert  Poulton,  for  the  length  of  396  yards  or  thereabouts,  and 
particularly  descrilied  in  the  plan  annexed,  as  lying  between  tiie  letters 
A  and  B,  and  also  a  certain  part  of  a  highway  in  the  said  parisli,  lying 
between  a  road  or  highway  called  the  W'estoning  Road  and  the  north- 
west corner  of  a  close  of  arable  land  in  tlie  parish  of  Tingrith,  called 
Ram  Alley  Close,  where  the  same  joins  a  road  or  highway  leatiing  from 
the  village  of  Tingrith  to  Woburn  for  the  length  of  999  yards,  and 
particularly  described  in  the  i)lan  annexed,  as  lying  between  the  letteis 
C  and  L).  And  also  a  certain  part  of  a  highway  witliin  the  said  parish 
of  Tingrith,  commonly  called  Church  Lane,  branching  out  of  the  last 
described  highway  in  a  southward  direction  at  the  north-west  corner  of 
a  close  of  pasture,  commonly  called  Lower  Home  Close,  and  lying 
between  the  said  north-west  corner  of  the  said  last-mentioned  close  and 
the  south-west  corner  of  Tingrith  Churchyard,  for  the  length  of 
425  yards  or  thereabouts,  and  particularly  described  in  the  plan  annexed 
lying  between  the  letters  E  and  G,  may  be  diverted  and  turned  without 
inconvenience,  and  so  as  to  make  the  same  more  convenient  to  the 
public.  And  having  viewed  a  course  pnjposed  for  the  new  highway  in 
lieu  thereof  through  the  lands  and  grounds  of  Robert  Trevor,  Esq.,  of 
the  length  of  462  yards  or  thereabouts,  and  of  the  breadth  of  30  feet 
or  thereabouts,  particularly  descril)ed  in  the  ])lan  annexed,  and  having 
received  evidence  of  the  consent  of  the  said  Robert  Trevor  for  the  said 
new  highway  to  be  made  tlnough  his  lands,  they  order  that  the  said 
highway  be  diverted  and  turned  as  aforesaid. 


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28  The  plan  mentioned  above. 

29  The  consent  mentioned  above. 

30  18th  August.     Order  that  the  old  highway  mentioned  above  be  vested  in 

the  said  Robert  Trevor. 

33  11th  September.  Measurements  of  a  public  carriage  road  or  highway  in 
the  parishes  of  Dunton  and  Sutton,  commencing  at  the  hand-post  near 
the  village  of  Dunton  and  proceeding  in  a  northwardly  direction 
between  enclosures  to  the  parish  of  Sutton,  which  it  enters  at  a  bridge 
between  the  two  parishes,  and  from  thence  continuing  nearly  in  the 
same  direction  in  the  parish  of  Sutton  to  a  hand  post  near  the  village 
of  Sutton,  where  it  enters  another  road  leading  from  the  said  village 
towards  Potton.     The  measurements  follow  : — 

Road  in  the  parish  of  Dunton — from  the  hand  post  near  the 
village  to  the  bridge  between  the  parishes  of  Dunton  and  Sutton, 
average  width  40  feet  but  not  formed,  1  mile  26  poles. 

Road  in  the  parish  of  Sutton — from  the  bridge  between  the  two 
parishes  to  the  hand  post  near  the  village  of  Sutton,  7  furlongs  29  poles  ; 
3  furlongs  and  29  poles  of  this  road  (next  the  parish  of  Dunton)  is  of 
the  average  width  of  23  feet,  the  remainder  is  sufficiently  wide. 

35  26th  September.     Particulars  of  a  road  called   Langford   Lane   in   the 

hamlet  of  Holm,  in  the  parish  of  Biggleswade,  lying  between  the 
boundary  of  the  township  of  Biggleswade  and  Holm  Mill  Bridge  joining 
the  parish  of  Southill.  Total  length  1600  yards,  mean  breadth  8  yards 
1  foot  10  inches. 

36  5th  October.     Particulars  of  a  survey  of  a  road  leading  from  Holwell  to 

Shitlington,  being  that  part  of  the  said  road  which  lies  between 
Holwell  Church  and  a  place  called  Lower  Stondon  in  the  parish  of 
Shitlington  ;  where  it  joins  the  road  that  leads  from  Shitlington  to 
the  Hitchin  turnpike  road.  Total  length,  2794  yards ;  mean  breadth, 
9  yards  1  foot. 

37  7th  October.     Order  at  Quarter  Sessions    fixing   tlie    sums   for   the    hire 

of  carriages  employed  in  conveying  troops  in  addition  to  the  customary 
rates  of  Is.,  9d.,  and  6d.  viz.  : — 4d.  for  every  mile  any  waggon  with  4 
or  more  horses,  or  any  wain  with  6  oxen  or  4  oxen  and  2  horses  ; 
3d.  per  mile  any  cart  with  4  horses,  or  carrying  not  less  than  15 
hundredweight,  and  2(1.  i>er  mile  any  cnrt  or  carriage  with  less  than 
4  horses  and  not  carrying  15  hundredweight. 

54  Fragment  of  particulars  of  a  load  : — In  Clophill  jiarish  from  the  Stocks 
Tree  in  the  parish  of  Clophill  towards  Hayncs  as  far  as  the  road  is 
bad,  4  furlongs  14  poles.  The  old  lane,  28i  cliains  long,  15  feet 
wide  ]  remainder,  15  chains  long,  23  feet  wide. 


133 

In  Flitton  Parish,  from  the  handpost  by  the  village  of  Flitton  to 
Warehedges,  from  Flitton  to  Barton,  2  furlongs,  32  poles,  not  formed, 
average  width,  23  feet.  From  Fletton  Church  towards  Westoning  as 
far  as  the  parish  of  Flitton  extends,  2  furlongs,  1  pole,  average  width, 
30  feet. 

In  Harlington  Parish,  from  the  handpost  by  the  bridge  on  the  road 
leading  from  Westoning  to  Toddington  as  far  up  the  hill  as  the  new 
enclosure  extends,  5  furlongs,  18  poles,  average  width,  30  feet. 


15th  January.  List  of  prisoners  sentenced  : — George  Townsend,  69 
Benjamin  Lee,  and  Thomas  Baldock,  severally  convicted  of  larceny, 
are  severally  ordered  and  adjudged  to  pay  a  fine  of  Is.  ;  to  be 
imprisoned  in  the  common  gaol  till  Friday,  17th  January,  then  to  be 
taken  to  the  town  of  Eaton  Socon  and  there  publicly  whipped  and 
discharged.  Samuel  Fanch,  convicted  of  an  assault,  is  ordered  to  pay 
a  fine  of  Is.  ;  to  be  imprisoned  in  the  common  gaol  for  1  year,  during 
which  time  he  is  to  be  twice  publicly  whipped,  that  is  to  say  he  is  to 
be  conveyed  to  the  market  town  of  Woburn,  on  Tuesday,  26th  June, 
to  be  there  publicly  whipped  and  then  to  be  conveyed  back  to  gaol, 
where  he  is  to  remain  till  Saturday,  26th  December,  then  to  be 
publicly  whipped  in  the  market  place  of  Bedford  and  to  be  conveyed 
back  to  gaol  where  he  is  to  remain  till  the  expiration  of  the  said  year, 
when  he  is  to  find  2  sureties  in  £50  each  for  his  good  behaviour  for 
1  year,  and  in  default  to  be  imprisoned  for  another  year.  Joseph  Read, 
convicted  of  being  a  rogue  and  vagabond  and  being  above  the  age  of 
12  years,  is  ordered  to  be  employed  in  His  Majesty's  service  by  sea. 


20th    February.        Examination    of    Usef    Bankowski,    a    rogue    and    140 
vagabond.      He   was  born   in   the  Kingdom  of  Hungary,  and  served  in 
the  English   Navy  and   was  wounded,   and   had    been   wandering    and 
begging  in  England  for  nine  months  past. 


Confession  of  Elizabeth   Medlock,  who  broke  open  the  prison  door  in  the    142 
town  of  Potton  to  let  out  two  men  confined  there    for    riotous    and 
disorderly  conduct. 

See  Indictment,  No.  263. 


18th  June.  Information  and  complaint  of  James  Boston,  of  I'avenham.  145 
That  on  the  morning  of  Sunday,  the  7th  inst.,  he  was  dressing  himself 
in  a  meadow  of  Mr.  John  Somes,  in  the  parish  of  Pavenham,  after 
bathing  in  the  river  Ouze,  in  the  water  belonging  to  the  said 
John  Somes,  when  he,  John  Somes,  threw  a  coat  of  this  Examinant 
into  the  river,  and  then  .seized  him  by  his  arms  and  pushed  him 
backwards  into  the  river  ;  and  that  the  said  John  Somes  held  him  and 
got  into  the  water  with  him,  and  put  him  under  and  held  him  under 
the  water  till  his  breath  was  nearly  spent. 


134 

148  1st  July.  Information  of  John  Brittain,  of  Biggleswade,  that  John 
Barker,  Innholder,  of  Biggleswade,  Samuel  Bartle,  the  younger, 
barber,  of  the  same,  and  William  Squire,  butcher,  of  the  same,  with 
divers  others  to  the  number  of  100  or  150  did,  on  23rd  June  last, 
disturb  the  public  peace  in  Biggleswade. 

See  Indictment,  No.  256. 

160  4th    September.     Deposition    of   John    Bennet,    a   waterman,    living   at 

Peterborough,  that  he  was  on  the  race  ground  this  afternoon  and  lost 
his  pocket-book  containing  £45  in  £o  notes  of  the  Oundle  Bank, 
likewise  his  purse  containing  about  30s.  in  silver,  mostly  in  dollars, 
one  Is.  6d.  piece,  one  3s.  piece  and  perhaps  a  shilling  or  two,  and  one 
£1  (?)  bill  of  the  Oundle  Bank,  and  one  £1  note  of  the  Peterborough 
Bank,  marked  on  the  back  of  the  Bill  in  large  letters  "ON  Y,"  he 
further,  says  that  the  prisoner,  now  present,  was  in  the  act  of 
snatching  the  watch  out  of  his  pocket  when  deponent  seized  his  hand. 
The  prisoner  got  from  him,  but  soon  afterwards  deponent  found  him 
again,  and  told  him  that  if  he  would  give  him  his  pocket-book  back, 
which  contained  things  of  value,  he  would  forgive  him.  Prisoner 
made  no  answer. 

161  4th  September.     Deposition  of  Thomas  Duks,  of  St.  Ives,  in  the  county 

of  Huntingdon,  waternian,  that  on  the  Bedford  race  course  this  afternoon, 
near  the  booths,  he  found  the  hand  of  the  prisoner  in  his  breeches 
pocket  attempting  to  pick  his  pocket  of  a  pocket  [book]  containing 
notes,  &c.  He  seized  the  prisoner  and  has  not  since  quitted  him  nor 
suffered  him  to  depart. 

The  prisoner  William  i  says  that  he  belongs  to  Horndon-on-the-Hill  in 
Essex,  that  he  came  into  this  county  to  buy  lace,  that  he  went  into 
the  crowd  where  there  was  a  tight,  that  he  knows  nothing  of  the  matter. 

162  4th  September.      Deposition  of  John   Warden,   of  Bedford,  straw-dealer, 

that  this  afternoun  at  the  races  he  went  into  a  booth  to  have  some 
beer  and  saw  the  prisoner,  whom  he  had  noticed  in  the  course  of  the 
day  gambling  upon  the  race  ground,  walking  hastily  toward  a  barley 
field,  and  another  man,  of  shabby  appearance,  following  him. 
Deiionent  crept  softly  after  them,  and  saw  prisoner  and  the  other 
man  sittinfj  in  the  bottom  of  the  ditch,  and  found  the  prisoner  with  a 
yellow  canvas  purse  out  and  some  dollars  in  his  hand.  Deponent 
took  prisoner  back  to  the  booth.  On  the  way  the  other  man  escaped. 
Deponent  gave  the  prisoner  in  charge  to  Stephen  Pryor,  a  constable  ; 
and  in  his  cart,  in  custody  of  Pryor,  prisoner  was  brouglit  to  Bedford. 

163  4tli  Sejjtember.      Deposition  of  Stephen  Pryer,  constable  of  Bedford,  tliat 

he  was  upon  the  race  course  assisting  Mr.  Fleming,  of  the  Horse  and 
Jockey,  when  the  deponent,  Warden,  asked  him  to  take  charge  of  the 
jjrisoner  who  was  under  suspicion  of  theft.  This  deponent  doubted 
whether  the  place  was  within  the  limits  of  his  jurisdiction,  but 
accompanied  Warden  and  the  prisoner  to  IJedford. 

The  prisoner  says  his  name  is  Joseph  Manard  (1),  that  he  lives  at 
Northampton,  and  keeps  an  old  clothes  shop. 


135 

15th  January,  Certificate  of  John  Pheasant,  John  Dowgett,  166 
Charles  Evans,  Isaac  Whale,  Samuel  Wells  and  James  JNIaynanl,  that 
the  Reverend  Henry  Young  Cheverton  and  the  Reverend  Archibald 
MacLaughlin,  are  regular  itinerent  ministers  in  the  Methodist 
connection  serving  for  the  present  year  the  united  Methodist  Churches, 
in  the  Bedfordshire  circuit,  at  Bedford,  Ampthill,  Leighton  Buzzard, 
Eati>n  Bray,  &c. 


Gaoler's  quarterly  return  : — That  the  enactments  for   regulating   the    175 
gaol  have  been  complied  with. 


27th  October.  Certificate  that  a  public  carriage  road  in  the  parish  of  176 
Harlingtoii,  beginning  at  the  south  end  of  an  ancient  lane  in  the  parish 
of  Harlington,  called  Hoard  Lane,  and  proceeding  nearly  in  a  southward 
direction  until  it  enters  the  })arish  of  Sundon,  which  was  set  out  by 
the  commissioners  under  the  Act  of  48  George  III,  for  enclosing  lands 
in  the  parish  of  Harlington,  is  formed  and  completed. 


28th  November.  Certificate  of  the  convictioti  of  Joseph  Aytrup,  of  the  jyg 
parish  of  Bolnhurst,  miller,  for  keeping  back  from  Henry  Clapham,  of 
Wilden,  labourer,  half  a  bushel  of  wheat  out  of  five  bushels  sent  to  him 
to  be  ground  at  his  public  mill  at  Bolnhurst,  allowance  being  made  of 
one  pound  and  a  half  in  each  bushel  for  grinding  and  dressing  the  same, 
and  also  for  neglecting  to  have  in  his  said  mill  a  table  of  prices  for 
grinding  or  toll  to  be  taken  at  his  mill. 


25th  December.     A    return    of  the    1st  Regiment    of   Bedfordshire    local    j-g 
Militia,  it  consists  of  169  officers  and  men. 


25th  December.     A   return  of  the   Bedfordshire   Militia   now   remaining    jgQ 
embodied  on   war   establishment  by  the  King's  warrant,   dated    13th 
March,  1803,  for  calling  out  the  Militia. 


30th   December.      A   return  of  the   2nd   Regiment   of    Bedfordshire    local    ISl 
Militia,    commanded    by     Lieut.-Col.     Lord     St.     John  : —     Effective 
strength,    652    officers    and    men  ;    wanting    to    complete,    85  ;    total 
establishment,  746, 


Gaoler's  quarterly  account: — Providing  William  Cuthbertson  two  199 
and  three  meals  per  day,  ponadoes,  with  wine,  broths,  poultices,  t^c, 
for  6  weeks,  £2  18s.  Pust  chaise  and  sad<lle  horse  with  George 
Townsend,  Benjamin  Lee,  and  Thomas  Baldock,  to  be  each  publicly 
Avhipped  at  Eaton  Socon  ;  expenses  in  eating,  horses,  corn,  postboy, 
&c.,  £4  2s.  Publicly  whipping  Thomas  White  at  the  cart's  tail  on 
the  market  day  at  Bedford,  100  yards,  15s.,  &c. 


156 

207  Gaoler's  account.  May  12th.  To  removing  and  putting  on  board  the 
"  Captivity  "  hulk  lying  in  Portsmouth  Harbour^  John  Ballard, 
John  Green  and  Joseph  Cade,  convicts  for  transportation  for  life,  .£15  ; 
from  London  to  Portsmouth,  72  miles,  at  is.  per  mile,  £10  16s. ;  the 
order,  Is. 

218  Midsummer  Sessions.  Gaoler's  account :— Publicly  whipping  William 
Osborn,  of  Bedford,  10s.  6d.  Chaise  hin;  to  Woburn  to  publicly  whip 
Thomas  Faunch  ;  horses,  men  and  other  expenses,  £3   10s.   6d. 

233  21st  November.  Estimate  of  a  road  in  Stopgly  hamlet  in  the  parish  of 
Luton  from  Lilley  parish. 

248  Presentment  that  there  is  an  ancient  highway  leading  from  and  out  of 

the  parish  of  Offley,  in  the  County  of  Hertford,  to  the  town  of  Luton, 
a  certain  part  whereof  lying  in  the  parish  of  Stopsley,  containing  in 
length  2000  yards  or  thereabouts,  and  in  breadth  20  feet  or 
thereabouts,  is  in  decay,  and  that  the  inhabitants  of  the  hamlet  of 
Stopsley  ought  to  repair  the  same. 

249  Presentment  that  there  is  an  ancient  highway  leading  from  Biggleswade 

to  the  village  of  Southill,  a  certain  part  whereof  lying  in  the  hamlet  of 
Holme  in  the  said  parish,  commonly  called  Langford  Lane,  commencing 
at  the  township  of  Biggleswade  and  proceeding  to  Holm  IMill  Bridge, 
where  it  enters  the  parish  of  Southill,  containing  in  length  1600  yards, 
and  in  breadth  26  feet  or  thereabouts,  is  in  decay,  and  that  the 
inhabitants  of  the  hamlet  of  Holm  ought  to  repair  the  same. 

250  Presentment  that  there  is  an  ancient  highway  leading  from  the  village  of 

Holwell  to  the  village  of  Shitlington,  a  certain  part  whereof  lying  in 
the  parish  of  Holwell,  commencing  at  the  parish  church  of  Holwell, 
and  so  continuing  towards  the  village  of  Shitlington  for  the  length  of 
2794  yards,  and  of  the  breadth  of  28  feet  or  thereabouts,  is  in  decay, 
and  that  the  inhabitants  of  the  parish  of  Holwell  ought  to  repair  the 
same. 

251  Presentment  that  there  is  an  ancient  highway  leading  from  the  village  of 

Westoning  to  the  village  of  Harlington,  a  certain  part  whereof,  lying 
in  the  parish  of  Harlington,  commencing  at  the  handpost  near  the 
britlge  on  another  highway  leading  from  and  out  of  the  first 
mentioned  highway  to  Toddington,  and  continuing  from  the  said 
handpost  towards  the  village  of  Hailington,  for  the  length  of  5 
furlongs,  18  poles,  and  of  the  breadth  of  30  feet  or  thereabouts,  is  in 
decay,  and  that  the  inhabitants  of  the  jtarish  of  Harlington  ought  to 
repair  the  same. 

252  Indictment  of  Mary  Hasledine,  wife  of  John  Hasledine,  of  the  parish  of 

St.  Paul,  liedfoid,  for  uttering  counterfeit  silver  tokens  for  the,  sum  of 
3s.,  issued  by  the  Bank  of  England  with  the  approbation  of  the  privy 
Council,  having  on  the  oljverse  side  an  ini]n'ession  of  the  King's  Head 
and  the  inscription  "  (ieorgius  IK.  Dei  gratia,  Bex"  and  on  the 
reverse,  "Bank  Token  3  shill.,  1811." 


1?>7 

Presentment  that  there  is  an  ancient  highway  leading  from  and  out  of    262 

the  highway  leading  from  Baldock  to  Heniovv  to  the  village  of 
Astwick,  a  certain  part  of  which  first  mentioned  highway  lying  in  the 
parish  of  "  Arlsey,"  containing  in  length  950  yards  or  thereabouts,  and 
in  breadth  20  feet  or  thereabouts,  is  in  decay,  and  that  the  inhabitants 
of  the  parish  of  "  Arlsey  "  ought  to  repair  the  same. 

Indictment  of  Elizabeth   Medlock,  of  Wrestlingworth,  singlewoman,  for    263 
breaking  open  the  prison  door  in  the  parish  of  Potton,  and  rescuing 
therefrom    John    Weston   and  Lewis   Seymour  committed  for  riotous 
behaviour. 

Order  that  j\[r.  Wing  be  directed   to  survey,   with  greater  accuracy,   the    274 
present  state  of  the  Bromham  carriage  and  horse  bridge. 


1813. 

24th  April.  Notice  by  Thomas  Davis  and  James  Gutteridge,  surveyors,  |2 
that  application  will  be  made  to  the  Justices  at  the  next  general 
quarter  sessions,  28th  April,  for  an  equal  assessment  to  be  made,  not 
exceeding  9d.  in  the  pound,  upon  the  occupiers  of  lands,  &c.,  in  the 
hamlet  of  Stopsley,  in  the  parish  of  Luton,  for  the  highways 
within  the  said  hamlet. 

28th  April.     Order  of  Quarter  Sessions  granting  the  above  assessment.  15 

28th  April.     The  like,  that  the  following  sums  shall  be  paid  for  the  hire  of    16 
carriages   employed    in   the  conveyance   of  troops  in  addition  to  the 
customary  rates  (see  1812  No.  37). 

10th  July.     Measurements    of  a   public    bridle   road    in   the   parish   of    20 
Clophill,  being  part  of  the  bridle  road  lea<liug  from  Chicksands   Wood 
("orner  towards  Clo[ihill  : — 

Commencing  at  the  conjunction  of  the  parishes  of  Hayties  and 
Clophill,  and  jjroceeding  in  nearly  a  south-eastwardly  direction  until 
it  enters  the  public  carriage  road  leading  from  Haynes  Church  End  to 
Clophill. 

12th  July.      Particulars  of  a  survey  of  that  part  of  the  road  leading  from    21 
Warden  to  Biggleswade,  called  Hill    Lane,   belonging  to  the  parish  of 
Warden,  lying  between  Dooliitle  Mill  Biidge,  in  the  parish  of  Wanlen, 
and  the  turnpike  road  leading  from  GirtfonI  Biidge  to  Clifton.      Total 
length,  5  furlongs,  1  13  yards  ;   mean  breadth,  8  yards,  1  foot. 

12tli  July.     The  like   of  that  part  of   the  road  leading  from    Warden  to    22 
liiggleswaile,   called   Hill   Lane,   bolongiug  to  the    [larish    of    Northill, 
lying  between  the  road  leading  from   Girtford    Ihi.lge   to  Clifton,   and 
the  Great  JMorth  road  leading  from  Biggleswade  to  Tempsford. 


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23  12th  July.     The  like  of  a  road  situate  in  the  parish   of  Wrestlingworth, 

lying  between  the  boundary  of  the  parish  of  Sutton  and  the  White 
Bridge  joining  the  parish  of  E}>  worth.  Total  length,  2  furlongs, 
88  yards ;  mean  width,  42  feet. 

Also  a  road  leading  from  Dunton  to  Wrestlingworth,  lying 
between  the  boundary  of  the  parish  of  Eyworth  and  the  hand-post 
where  the  four  roads  meet  in  the  parish  of  Wrestlingwortli.  Total 
length,  3  furlongs,  113  yards;  mean  width,  40  feet. 

Also  a  continuation  of  the  said  road  from  this  hand-post  through 
the  village  of  Wrestlingworth  to  the  new  farndiouse,  in  the  occujiation 
of  Mr.  Wills,  situate  at  Wrestlingworth.  Total  length,  4  furlongs, 
66  yards  ;  mean  breadth,  25  feet. 

24  13th  July.     The  like  of  a  road  leading  from  Wrestlingworth  to   Potton 

lying  between  the  boundary  of  the  parish  of  Wrestlingworth  and 
Cockayne  Hatley,  and  the  brick  clamps  in  the  open  field  on  Short 
Herden  furlong  in  Potton  old  field  in  the  way  to  Potton  Town. 
Total  length,  6  furlongs,  77  yards ;  mean  breadth,  23  feet. 

27  14th  July.  Order  at  Quarter  Sessions  that  the  inhabitants  of  the  hamlet 
of  Egginton  pay  a  fine  of  .£200  for  not  repairing  a  certain  part  of  an 
ancient  highway  leading  from  the  village  of  Hockliffe  to  the  town  of 
Leighton  Buzzard,  situate  in  the  hamlet  of  Eggington,  beginning  at  or 
near  a  joint  way  near  a  road  there  leading  out  of  the  said  road  to  the 
village  of  Eggington,  and  continuing  to  a  certain  place  called 
Eggington  Corner  in  the  said  hamlnt,  and  containing  in  lengtii  100 
yards  and  in  breadth  33  feet. 

27a    Plan  of  the  road  mentioned  above. 

38  14th  September.  Order  hy  John  Osborne  and  James  Webster,  Justices  of 
the  Peace,  reciting  tliat  having  upon  a  view  found  that  a  certain  foot- 
way in  the  parish  of  Canipton,  lying  between  tlie  road  leading  from 
Campton  to  Chichsan<ls  down  to  William  Lamb's  farm,  and  for  the 
length  of  576  yards  or  thereabouts,  and  particularly  described  in  the 
plan  annexed,  may  be  turned  and  diverted  without  any  inconvenience 
to  the  public  into  another  highway  in  the  saiil  parish  of  Canipton, 
they  therefore  order  that  the  said  footway  be  diverted  accordingly,  and 
that  an  assessment  not  exceeding  Id.  in  the  pound  be  levied  on  all 
all  occupiers  of  lands,  &c.,  in  the  said  parish  to  be  applied  for  the 
recompense  of  those  throiigh  whose  grounds  the  footway  passes,  and 
for  the  cost  of  stopping  up  the  old  way. 

38a    Plan   mentioned  above. 

48  6th  October.  Order  at  Quarter  S«^ssions  that  the  inhabitants  of  the  parish 
of  Dunton  pay  a  fine  of  £270  for  not  repairing  a  certain  part  of  an 
ancient  higliwav  leading  from  the  village  of  Dunton  to  the  village   of 


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Sutton,  lying  in  the  parish  of  Dunton,  commencing  at  the  hand-post 
near  the  village  of  Dunton,  and  proceeding  in  a  northwardly  direction 
between  enclosures  to  the  parish  of  Sutton,  which  it  enters  at  a  hridge 
between  the  said  parish  of  Dunton  and  the  said  parish  of  Sutton, 
containing  in  length  1  mile,  26  poles,  and  of  the  breadth  of  40  feet  or 
thereabouts. 


6th  October.  Order  at  Quarter  Sessions  that  the  inhabitants  of  the  parish  49 
of  Flitton  pay  a  fine  i)f  .£'250  for  not  repairing  a  certain  part  of  an 
ancient  highway  leading  from  the  village  of  Flitton  to  the  viUage  of 
Clophill,  situate  in  the  parish  of  Flitton,  commencing  at  the  hand-post 
in  or  near  the  village  of  Flitton,  and  so  continuing  to  a  place 
called  Warehedges  towards  the  village  of  Clophill  for  the  length  of 
2  furlongs,  32  poles,  and  of  the  breadth  of  23  feet  or  thereabouts. 


6th  October.  Order  of  Quarter  Sessions.  Reciting  that  Edward  Piatt,  50 
Thomas  Lilluirn  and  Miller  Golding,  gents,  (appointed,  in  pursuance  of 
an  Act  of  37  George  III.,  for  dividing,  allotting  and  enclosing  the 
common  and  open  fields,  &c.,  in  the  parish  of  Harrold,  for  ascertaining 
the  average  price  of  a  Winchester  bushel  of  Wheat  in  the  County  of 
Bedford  for  14  years  last)  reported  that  the  said  average  price  is 
10s.  9|d.  And  it  appearing  to  the  court  that  the  said  average  price  is 
more  than  the  average  price  set  forth  in  the  Award  made  by  the 
Commissioners  in  the  said  Act  named  to  the  value  of  3d.  and  upwards, 
it  is  ordered  that  the  several  yearly  corn-rents  or  sums  set  forth  in  the 
said  award,  and  thereby  respectively  charged  upon  lands  belonging  to 
Amabella  Baroness  Lucas  and  Thomas  Higgins  and  Jacob  Warner,  esq., 
trustees  for  Farrer  Grove  Spurgeon,  a  minor,  and  made  payable 
to  the  Yicar  of  Harrold  and  his  successors  in  the  manner  therein 
mentioned,  shall  be  increased  in  proportion.  And  it  is  further 
ordered  that  the  exact  amount  of  the  several  sums  to  which  the  said 
.several  yearly  rents  or  sums  shall  be  respectively  increased,  shall  be  as 
follows  : — The  yearly  rent  of  £35  Is.  by  the  said  award  charged  upon 
lands  of  the  said  Baroness  Lucas  shall  be  increased  to  £61  16s.  10|d.  ; 
And  the. yearly  rent  of  £35  7s.  7d.  by  the  said  award  charged  upon 
lands  of  the  said  Thomas  Higgins  and  Jacob  Warner,  as  trustees 
aforesaid,  shall  be  increased  to  £62  8s.    lOd. 

Note. — It  appears  by  the  award  of  the  commissioners  that  the 
tithes  ceased  to  be  paid  on  16th  October,  1798,  and  that  the  first 
payment  of  the  corn-rent  was  to  be  made  on  25th  December,  1798  ; 
the  first  14  years  of  the  jiayment  of  such  corn-rent  therefore  expired 
on  25th  December,  1812. 


6th  October.  Order  at  Quarter  Sessions  that  the  inhabitants  of  the  parish  51 
of  Great  Barford  pay  a  fine  of  £300  for  not  repairing  a  certain  part  of 
an  ancient  high  way  leading  from  and  out  of  the  parish  of  Renold 
to  the  pari.-h  of  Boxton,  in  the  parish  of  Great  Barford,  called  Cuckoo 
Brook,  and  proceeding  in  nearly  an  eastwardly  direction  over  open 
fields  to  the  village  of  Great  Barford,   crossing  the  town  street  there 


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and  tlience  continuing  nearly  in  the  same  direction  over  other  open 
fields  in  the  said  parish  to  Roxton  Hill  where  the  said  road  enters  the 
turnpike  road  leading  from  Cardington  Cross  to  the  Great  North  lload, 
of  the  length  of  1  mile,  7  furlongs  and  187  yards  or  thereabouts. 

159  13th  January.  Certificate  that  the  highway  leading  from  the  village  of 
Warden  to  the  village  of  Cardington,  situate  in  the  parish  of  Warden, 
commencing  at  the  Manor  Farm  House  in  the  said  parish  and  ending 
at  a  certain  place  called  Four  Gates,  where  it  joins  the  parish  of 
Cardington,  containing  in  length  57  poles,  and  in  breadth  15  feet  or 
thereabouts,  has  been  repaired. 

No.  227  is  the  presentment  of  the  said  road. 

161  14th  July.     Certificate  that  the  highway  in  the  hamlet  of  Holme  in  the 

parisii  of  Biggleswade,  commonly  called  Langford  Lane,  from  the 
township  of  Biggleswade  to  Holm  ^lill  Bridge  where  it  enters 
the  parish  of  Southill,  containing  in  length  1600  yards,  and  in  breadth 
26  feet  or  thereabouts,  has  been  repaired. 

162  14th  July.      Certificate  that  the  highway  leading  from  the  parish  of  Lilley 

in  the  County  of  Hertford  to  the  town  of  Luton,  situate  in  the  hamlet 
of  Stopsley  in  the  said  parish,  containing  in  length  706  )'ards  or 
thereabouts,  and  in  breadth  15  feet  or  thereabouts,  has  been  repaired. 

No.  228  is  the  presentment  of  the  said  road. 

163  14th  July.     Certificate  that  the  highway  leading  from  the  parish  of  Lilley, 

in  the  County  of  Hertford,  to  the  town  of  Luton  lying  in  the  parish  of 
Streatley,  containing  in  length  596  yards  or  thereabouts,  and  in  breadth 
15  feet  or  thereabouts  has  been  repaired. 

No.  229  is  the  presentment  of  the  said  road. 

164  14th  July.     Certificate  that  tlie  highway  leading  from  the  parish  of  Lilley 

in  the  County  of  Bedford  sic  to  the  town  of  Luton  lying  in  the  parish 
of  Barton,  containing  in  length  462  yards  or  thereabouts,  and  in 
breadth  15  feet  or  thereabouts  has  been  repaired. 

No.  230  is  the  presentment  of  the  said  road. 

165  14th  July.     Certificate  that  the  highway  in  the  parish  of  Clophill  leading 

from  the  market  town  of  Sliefi'ord  to  the  market  town  of  Anipthill, 
situate  in  the  parish  of  Clophill,  containing  in  length  3  fuilongs, 
6  poles,  and  in  breadth  23  feet,  has  been  repaired. 

No.  231  is  the  presentment  of  the  said  road. 

166  14th  July.     Certificate  that   the  highway   called    Limmersey  (?)  Lane   in 

the  parish  of  Hawnes,  contaiinng  in  length  2  furlongs,  25  pole;^,  and 
of  the  average  breadth  of  29  feet  or  thereabouts,  has  been  repaired. 

No.  232  is  the  preseutmeut  of  the  said  road. 


141 

5th  October.     Certificate  that  the  highway  in   the  parish  of  Houfjliton    169 
Regis  loading  from  the  village  of  Wliipsnade  to  the  hamlet  of  Market 
Street,  commonly  called  Buckwood  Stubbs,  is  formed  and  completed. 

2nd  October.  Certificate  that  the  highway  leading  from  the  village  of  173 
Westoning  to  the  village  of  Harlington,  situate  in  the  parish  of 
Harlington,  commencing  at  tlie  hand-post  near  the  bridge  on  another 
highway  leading  from  and  out  of  the  said  first-mentioned  highway  to 
Toddington,  and  continuing  from  the  said  hand-post  towards  the 
village  of  Harlington  for  the  length  of  5  furlongs,  18  poles,  and  of  the 
breadth  of  30  feet  or  thereabouts,  has  been  repaired. 

Epiphany  Sessions.     Gaoler's  quarterly  account : — Privately  whipping    178 
John  Crossley,  William  Crossley  and   William   Clerk,   15s.     Publicly 
whipping  Thomas  Faunch  a  second  time,  10s.  6d.,  &c.,  &c. 

Easter   Sessions.     Gaoler's    account: — Providing   David   Latham    two    190 
meals  a  day  for  4  weeks  and  3  days  ;  providing  a  nurse,  also  ponadoes, 
teas,  broths,  and    other    nourishments,  ,£2   17s.      Privately  whipping 
William  Finch,  5s. 

Midsummer   Sessions.     Gaoler's    account: — To    publicly    whipping   at    214 
Woburn,  John  Allen  and  Thomas  Elgerton,  £1    Is.  ;    post  chaise  hire 
and  other  expenses  attending  the  same,  £3   10s.,  &c.,  &c. 

Account  of  William  Berrill  and  Son  for  repairs  to  Earford  Bridge.  216 

Account  of  Robert  Salmon.      Surveying  tiie  state  of  Barford  Bridge  and    218 
making  out  particulars   for  repairs,    &c.,   £8.      Attending  and   taking 
plan  of  Bromham  Bridge,  &c.,  £4  4s.     Making  plans  and   paiticulars 
and  estimates  for  improving  the  old  Horse  Bridge  or  for  rebuilding  the 
same,  £10  10s. 

25th  October.      Estimate  of  the  expense  of  putting  into  repair  a  public    225 
carriage  road  in  the  paiish  of  Great   Barford.      From   Roxton  Hill   to 
l>arford  Towns  End  with  one  arch  below  the  hill,  1  mile,  4  pole.s,  £175. 
From   Barford    Towns    End    to    Rennold    Bridge,    1    mile,    16    poles, 
£118  10s. 

Presentment  that  a  certain  bridge  of  the  breadth  of  15  feet  and  of  the    233 

length  of  12  feet  ])laced  acro.ss  a  brook  or  mill  stream  in  the  parishes 
of  Shidlington  and  Lower  Gravenhurst,  which  bridge  is  an  ancient 
highway  leading  from  the  village  of  jNIeppershall  to  the  parish  of 
Upper  Gravenhurst,  is  in  decay. 

Presentment  that  there  is  an  ancient  highway  leading  from  the  village  of    234 
Meppersliall  to  the  village  of  Higham  Gobion,   a  certain   part  whereof 
lying  in  the  parish  of  Shidlington,   containing   in   length    1040    yards 
and  in  breadth  about  23  feet,  is  in  decay,  and  that  the  inhabitants  of 
the  said  parish  ought  to  repair  the  same. 


14^2 

235  Presentment  that  there  is  an  ancient  highway  leading  from  the  town  of 

Luton  to  Cockernhoe,  in  the  parish  of  Offley,  and  thcMioe  to  the  town 
of  Hitchin,  a  certain  part  whereof  lying  in  the  parish  of  Luton  at  or  in 
certain  places  or  roads  called  Blackwater  Lane  and  Crawley  Green 
Road,  beginning  at  the  distance  of  20  yards  or  thereabouts  from  the 
common  pound,  standing  in  or  near  the  town  stteet  of  Luton,  and 
extending  along  the  same  road  towards  Cockernhoe,  and  containing  in 
length  700  yards,  and  in  breadth  20  feet  or  thereabouts;  also  a  certain 
part  of  the  said  highway  leading  to  Cockernhoe,  being  the  north  side 
of  the  same  common  highway,  lying  in  the  ]»arish  of  Luton,  opposite 
the  south  end  of  a  lane  called  Hart  Lane  leading  to  Cockernhoe,  and 
extending  along  the  same  road  from  the  said  south  end  of  the  lane 
called  Hart  Lane  towards  Luton,  and  containing  in  length  410  yards, 
and  in  breadth  10  feet,  are  in  decay,  and  that  the  inhabitants  of  the 
town  of  Luton  ought  to  repair  the  same. 

236  Presentment  that  there  is  an  ancient  highway  leading  from  the  parish  of 

Whipsnade  to  the  parish  of  Sturlham,  a  certain  part  whereof  lying  in 
the  parish  of  Houghton  Regis,  beginning  at  or  near  a  certain  Wood  in 
the  parish  of  Whipsnade  called  Dead  mousey  Wood,  and  ending  at  or 
near  the  east  corner  of  a  certain  lane  in  the  parish  of  Studham  called 
Bucket  Lane,  and  containing  in  length  2G3  poles,  and  in  breadth 
30  feet,  is  in  decay,  and  that  the  inhabitants  of  the  parish  of  Houghton 
Regis  ought  to  repair  the  same. 

237  Presentment  that  there  is  an  ancient  highway  leading  from  the  village  of 

Hockliffe  to  the  town  of  Leighton  Buzzard,  a  certain  part  whereof 
lying  in  the  parish  of  Egginton,  beginning  at  or  near  a  joint-way  near 
a  road  there  leading  out  of  the  said  road  to  the  village  of  Egginton, 
continuing  to  a  certain  place  called  Egginton  Corner  in  the  hamlet  of 
Egginton,  and  containing  in  length  1000  yards,  and  in  breadth  33  feet 
or  thereabouts,  is  in  decay,  and  that  the  iidiabitants  of  the  hamlet  of 
Egginton  ought  to  repair  the  same. 

238  Presentment  that  there  is  an  ancient  highway  leading  from  and  out  of  the 

parish  of  Renhold  to  the  parish  of  Roxton,  a  certain  part  whereof, 
lying  in  the  parish  of  Great  Barford,  commencing  at  the  west  side  of 
the  said  parish  of  Great  Barford,  called  Cuckoo  brook,  and  proceeding 
in  nearly  an  eastwardly  direction  over  the  open  fields  to  the  village  of 
Great  Barford,  crossing  the  town  street  there,  and  thence  continuing 
nearly  in  the  same  direction  over  other  open  fields  in  the  said  jiarish  of 
Great  Barford  to  lioxton  Hill,  where  the  said  road  enters  the  turnpike 
road  leading  from  Cardington  Cross  to  the  great  Xorth  Road,  of  the 
length  of  1  mile  7  furlongs  87  yards,  and  of  the  breadth  of  30  feet  or 
thereabouts,  is  in  decay,  and  that  the  inhabitants  of  the  parish  of 
Great  Barford  ought  to  rei)air  the  same. 

26G  l^^th  July.  Bedford  GaoL  Letter  from  John  Letts  to  John  Miller, 
chairman  of  quarter  sessions.  "  Sir,  1  take  the  liberty  of  writing 
these  few  lines  to  you,  which,  Sir,  I  hope  you  will  pardon  me  for  so 
doing,  as  it  is  distress  of  mind  that  induced  me  to  take  the  liberty  of 


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writing  to  you.  I  am,  Sir,  and  Gentlemen,  the  unfortunate  young 
man,  John  Letts,  who  was  yesterday  sentenced  to  7  years  transportation. 
Sir,  I  liumbly  beg  and  entreat  of  you  to  have  mercy  upon  me  and 
mitigate  my  sentence  as  that  is,  Sir,  my  earnest  prayer,  as  I  had  no 
person  to  speak  in  behalf  of  my  character  yesterday,  which,  Sir, 
I  was  greatly  disappointed  for.  My  father  and  brother  came  to  see 
me  last  week  in  prison  and  they  told  me  that  I  might  depend  upon 
having  some  respectable  people  yesterday  to  answer  to  my  good 
character  before  this  misfortune  happened  to  me,  but,  alas  !  I  was 
disappointed.  Sir,  instead  of  my  father  and  brother  being  friends  to 
me  when  they  came  to  me  in  prison  they  have  proved  enemies  and 
snares  to  me  for  they  enticeil  me  out  of  my  watch  and  money  likewise, 
and  told  me  that  I  might  trust  and  depend  upon  them  and  the  friends 
that  they  would  send  for  out  of  the  country  to  be  at  Bedford  yesterday 
and  no  person  came  so  that  1  am  lost.  So  tliat.  Sir,  through  the  very 
act  of  my  friends  [I  am  lost]  I  trust  that  you  will  have  mercy  upon  me 
and  mitigate  my  sentence." 

CALENDAR. 

1814. 

15th  January.     Alphabetical  List  of  persons  detained  in  gaol  up  to  the    71 
6th   of  Noveml)er,    1813,    with  the  date   of   their  imprisonment,   the 
names   of   the   persons   at   whose   suit   they  are   imprisoned,   and   the 
reasons  for  such  imprisonment. 

12th  January.      Order  at    Quarter    Sessions  fixing  the  sums  to  be  paid  for    73 
the  hire   of  carriages  employed  in  the  conveyance  of  troops  in  addition 
to  the  customary    rates  of  1/-,  9d.,  and  61I.  per  mile  respectively,  fixed 
by  the  Act  of  54  Geo.  III.  c.  25.      The  sums   are   similar  to  those  set 
out  in  the  order  of  1813  (see  No.  16). 

19th  October.  Order  at  Quarter  Sessions  for  Twydale  Dear,  of  Shitlington,  86 
to  view  (and  give  an  estimate  for  the;  repairing  of)  part  of  a  common 
highway  leading  from  the  village  of  Hocklitie  to  the  town  of  Leigliton 
Buzzard,  situate  in  the  parish  of  Hockliffe,  commencing  at  a  place 
called  Hockliffe  Lane  End  and  proceeding  towards  the  town  of 
Leighton  Buzzard,  of  the  length  of  5  furlongs  and  6  poles  and  of  the 
breadth  of  24  feet  (See  also  Nos.  89  and  384). 

19th  October.  Order  at  Quarter  Sessions  that  the  inhabitants  of  the  87 
hamlet  of  Hill  do  pay  a  fine  of  £130  for  not  repairing  a  certain  part  of 
a  common  highway,  leading  from  Warden  to  Biggleswade,  situate  in 
the  hamlet  of  Hill  in  the  parisli  of  Warden,  lying  between  Do-little 
Mill  Bridge  in  the  pajish  of  Warden  and  the  turnjjike  road  leading 
from  Girtford  Bridge  to  Clifton,  of  the  length  of  5  furlongs  and  113 
yards  and  of  tiie  breadth  of  8  yards  and  1  foot  or  thereabouts;  and 
that  the  said  £130  be  paid  to  Samuel  Eakin  of  Elstow  for  the  said 
purpose. 

19th  October.      Order  at  Quarter  Sessions  that  tlic!  inhabitants  of  Clophill    88 
do    pay    a   fine   of    <£60   for   not  repairing  a  certain  part  of  a  common 
highway  leading  from  Chicksands  to  Clopliill  in  llie  [)arish  of  Clophill, 


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beginning  at  a  conjunction  of  the  parishes  of  Hawnes  and  Clophill, 
and  proceeding  nearly  in  a  south  westward  I3'  direction  until  it  enters 
the  ])ul)lic  carriage  mad  leading  from  Hawnes  Church  to  the  parish  of 
Clophill,  of  ihe  length  of  6  furlongs  and  15  poles  and  of  the  breadth 
of  12  feet. 

90  &  91  19tli  October.  Order  at  Quarter  Sessions  that  a  report  be  made  upon  the 
.state  of  a  certain  part  of  a  common  hi<,diway  leading  from  the  village 
of  Hockliffe  to  the  town  of  Leigh  ton  Buzzard,  situate  in  the  hamlet  of 
Egginton  in  the  parish  of  Leighton  Buzzard,  beginning  at  or  near  a 
joint  way  near  a  road  leading  out  of  the  said  road  to  the  village  of 
Egginton,  and  continuing  to  a  place  called  Egginton  Corner  in  the 
hamlet  of  Egginton,  and  containing  in  length  1000  yards,  and  in 
breadth  33  feet.  And  that  the  inhabitants  of  Egginton  be  ordered  to 
pay  a  tine  of  =£390  for  not  repairing  the  same.     (See  also  Xo.  385.) 

107  30th  May.     Conviction  of  Thomas  East  for  having  sold  ale  in  the  parish  of 

Caddington  without  a  licence,  he  is  ordered  to  pay  £10  and  =£1   3s.  6d. 

costs. 

108  5th    December.       Presentment    by    Thomas    Laidlaw,    surveyor   of   the 

township  of  Luton,  and  James  Gutteridge,  surveyor  of  the  hamlet  of 
Stopsley,  that  there  is  a  certain  common  highway  leading  from  Luton 
to  Cockernhoe,  and  that  there  is  a  certain  part  of  the  said  highway 
(that  is  to  say)  so  much  thereof  as  lies  between  a  certain  place  marked 
A  on  the  plan  hereunto  annexed,  being  the  west  corner  of  a  certain 
close  belonging  t<)  John  Crawley,  Esquire,  in  the  occupation  of 
Thomas  Smith,  and  a  certain  other  })lace  marked  C  on  the  said  plan, 
.situate  on  a  certain  green  called  Crawley  (ireen,  and  adjoining  the 
south-east  end  of  a  certain  lane  called  Hart  Lane,  such  part  of  the  said 
liigliway  being  in  length,  from  the  place  marked  A  on  the  said  plan  to 
the  said  place  marked  C,  60  poles,  one  side  of  which  last  mentioned 
part  of  the  said  highway  adjoining  to  the  township  of  Luton,  lies 
■within  the  said  township  of  Luton  and  ought  to  be  repaired  by  the 
said  township  of  Luton.  And  the  other  side  of  the  same  part  of  the 
said  highway  adjoining  to  the  hamlet  of  Stopsley  lies  within  the  saiil 
hamlet  of  Stopsley,  and  ought  to  be  repaired  by  that  hanielet.  And 
that  there  is  in  the  said  county  a  certain  other  common  highway  known 
by  the  name  of  Hart  Lane,  branching  out  of  the  said  last  mentioned 
highway  at  the  place  marked  D  on  the  said  plan,  on  the  said  Green 
called  Crawley  Green  into  a  certain  highway  leading  from  Luton  to 
Stopsley,  near  a  certain  Green  called  Round  Green,  at  the  place 
marked  F  on  the  said  plan,  such  highway  called  Hart  Lane  being  in 
length  145  poles,  one  side  of  which  last  mentioned  highway  adjoining 
to  the  township  of  Luton  lies  within  the  said  township  of  Luton 
and  ought  to  be  repaired  by  that  township.  And  the  other  side  of  the 
same  highway  adjoining  t(j  the  hamlet  of  Stopsley,  lies  within  the  said 
hamlet  of  Stopsley  and  ought  to  be  repaired  by  that  hamlet.  It  is 
further  presented  that  the  repairs  of  such  highways  are  very  incon- 
venient to  the  township  and  haudet  aforesaid,  and  it  is  prayed  tiierefore 
that  such  part  of  the  said  highways  may  lie  allotted  for  the  repairs 
theret)f  l)y  the  Justices  to  and  between  the  township  of  Luton  and 
hamlet  of   Stopsley,  in   the   uianucr  directed    by   the  Act  passed   iu 


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34  Geo.  Til.  The  justices  therefore  order  that  the  said  first  mentioned 
hiiihwiiy  shall  be  divided  as  follows  (that  is  to  say)  at  the  place 
marked  L>  on  the  plan  hereunto  annexed,  at  the  distance  of  30  poles 
from  each  of  the  said  places  marked  A  and  C  on  the  said  plan,  there 
shall  be  erected  a  post  or  stone  on  the  side  of  the  highway,  and  the 
whole  of  the  said  hif^hway  from  the  place  marked  A  to  such  post  or 
stone  shall  be  re])aired  by  the  township  of  Luton  :  and  the  whole  of 
the  said  highway  from  such  post  or  stone  to  the  place  marked  (J  shall 
be  from  time  to  time  repaired  by  the  hamlet  of  Stopsley  :  and  also 
that  the  said  highway  called  Hart  Lane  shall  be  divided  in  the 
following  manner  (that  is  to  say)  at  the  place  marked  E  on  the  plan 
at  the  distance  of  72^  poles  from  the  places  marked  D  and  F,  there 
shall  be  erected  a  post  or  stone,  and  the  whole  of  the  highway  from 
the  place  marked  D  on  the  said  plan  shall  be  repaired  by  the  hamlet 
of  Stopsley,  and  the  whole  of  the  highway  from  such  post  or  stone  to 
the  place  marked  F  on  the  said  plan  shall  be  repaired  by  the  township 
of  Luton. 

Plan  relating  to  the  foregoing  order.  109 

13th  October.  Certificate  by  two  Justices  of  the  Peace,  that  they  have  224 
viewed  the  f(dl()wing  roads  and  highways  and  find  them  to  be  in  good 
re])air,  viz*.  : — One  public  carriage  road  and  highway  being  part  of  the 
present  turnpike  road  leading  from  the  town  of  Bedford  to  the  town  of 
Higham  Ferrers  60  feet  wide  in  all  places.  One  other  public  carriage 
road  and  highway  being  part  of  the  present  turnpike  road  leading  from 
the  parish  of  Bletsoe  to  the  parish  of  Harrold  60  feet  wide.  One 
other  public  carriage  road  and  highway,  30  feet  wide,  called  the 
Risley  Road,  branching  out  of  the  Harrold  Turnpike  Road  on  Kennell 
Hill,  over  the  said  hill  to  Dry  Closes,  over  the  said  closes  to 
Molecrofts,  along  the  north  west  of  the  said  Molecrofts  and  Deadland 
Field  into  the  Bedford  Road,  along  the  same  road  to  the  south  east 
side  of  8cottins  Close,  thence  Viy  the  side  of  the  said  close  in  a  straight 
line  to  the  corner  of  Pippin  Wood,  and  by  the  side  of  the  said  wood 
to  a  lane  in  the  jiarish  of  Bletsoe  called  Bond  End  Lane.  One  public 
carriage  ri)ad  and  highway,  30  feet  wide,  called  the  Higham  Ferrers 
Road,  leading  from  the  east  end  of  Watery  Lane  at  the  corner  of  the 
orchard,  late  of  John  Eyler,  now  of  John  Gibbard,  Esqr.,  on  the  south 
end  of  Bai'ley  Croft  Close,  along  the  north  side  of  Temple  Slade  into 
the  turnpike  road  at  the  east  end  of  said  Slade.  One  other  public 
road,  30  feet  wide,  called  the  Pudilington  Road,  leading  from  the 
north  end  of  the  town  street  of  Sliarn brook,  over  Great  Cooper's  Piece, 
thence  in  a  curved  line  over  Wood  End  Field  to  Ten  Acre  Piece 
Hedge  at  Wood  End  Hill  Hadow,  thence  by  the  side  of  the  .said  hedge 
to  the  south  corner  of  King's  Ground  in  Sharnbrook,  thence  by  the 
boundary  of  Sharnbrook  to  a  lane  called  Yetling  Way  Lane  in  the 
parish  of  Odell.  One  other  public  carriage  road  and  highway  leading 
from  the  north  end  of  the  town  street  in  Sharnbrook  to  Souldrop,  of 
30  feet  in  all  places.  One  other  public  carriage  road  and  highway, 
30  feet  wide,  called  the  Cohvorth  Road,  branching  out  of  the  Harrold 
Turnpike  Road  on  Church  Piece,  in  a  westward  and  straight  direction 
over  Chuich  Piece,  Parsons  Corner,  Castle  Close,  and  Common  Moley 
into  the  Puddin^tou  Road. 


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225  8th   July.     Certificate    by   two  Justices  of  the  Peace,  that  they  have 

examined  the  public  highways  of  l>arton-in-the-Clay,  and  that  they 
have  been  repaired. 

226  8th   July.       Certificate   that    the    highway    in    the    parisli    of    Upper 

Gravenhurst,  commencing  at  the  east  side  of  the  parish  of  Upper 
Gravenhurst,  where  the  same  adjoins  the  parish  of  Campton  at  a  close 
in  the  parish  of  Campton,  called  Longclose,  in  the  occupation  of 
AVilliam  Lamb,  and  continuing  in  a  westwardly  direction  through  the 
parish  of  Upper  Gravenhurst  to  the  West  end  thereof,  by  the  west 
corner  of  an  old  inclosure,  called  the  Cherry  Orchard,  at  which  point 
the  same  road  adjoins  a  common  field  in  Upper  Gravenhurst,  called 
Church  Field,  6  furlongs  long  and  36  poles  wide,  as  to  1  furlong  and 
28  poles,  the  residue  of  the  said  36  poles  30  feet  has  been  repaired. 

227  8th  July.     Certificate  that  the  highways  in  the  parishes  of  Flitton-cum- 

Silsoe  and  Pulloxhill  have  been  repaired. 

228  8th  July.     Certificate  that  the  roads  in  the  parish  of  Clophill  have  been 

repaired. 

229  8th  July.     Certificate  that  part  of  a  highway,  leading  from   Meppershill 

to  Higham  Gobion,  being  in  the  parish  of  Shidlington,  beginning 
at  Stapleton's  Farm  and  continuing  towards  Higham  Gobion,  of  the 
length  of  1040  yards,  and  of  the  breadth  of  20  feet,  has  been  repaired. 

230  20th  July.     Certificate  that  a  certain  pai't  of  a  highway  in  the  parish  of 

Milton  Bryant,  in  the  Hundred  of  Manshead,  lying  between  the  west 
corner  of  Mill  Close  and  the  pound,  for  the  length  of  100  yards  or 
thereabouts,  and  of  the  breadth  of  30  feet  or  thereabouts;  and  also 
that  a  certain  part  of  a  footway  within  the  said  parish  lying  between 
the  said  corner  of  the  said  close  and  the  church,  for  the  length  of 
150  yards  or  thereabouts,  and  of  the  breadth  of  4  feet,  has  been 
diverted  and  turned  through  the  lands  of  Sir  Hugh  Inglis,  Baronet, 
with  his  consent,  in  order  to  be  made  more  commodious  to  the  public. 

231  19th  October.      Certificate  that  a  certain  part  of  a  highway  leading  from 

Bedford  to  (ireat  Haifoid  in  the  parish  of  Goldington,  commencing  at 
the  west  end  of  Goldington  Green,  and  proceeding  eastwaidly  over  the 
green  to  the  east  end  thereof,  and  thence  for  a  short  distance  between 
old  Inclosures  and  over  the  fields  to  a  bridge  dividing  Goldington  and 
Kenhold,  near  a  place  called  Casth;  ]\Iills  ;  of  the  length  of  I  mile, 
1  furlong  and  55  yards,  and  of  the  breadth  of  30  feet,  has  been 
repaired. 

232  19th  October.     Certificate  that  part  of  a  highway  leading  from   Bedford 

to  Benhold,  in  the  pai'ish  of  (Toldmglon,  commencing  at  (iravel  Bridge 
and  proceeding  eastwardly  to  the  west  end  of  Goldington  Green,  being 
832    yaids    long,   and   of  various   widths,   viz.  : — near   Gravel  Bridge 


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75  feet  wide  or  thereabouts,  in  the  middle  49  feet  or  thereabouts,  and 
at  the  east  end  near  Goldington  Green  42  feet  or  thereabouts,  has 
been  repaired  (see  also  !No.  376). 

19th  October.     Certificate  that  the  highway  leading  from  the  parish  of    233 
Kenhold  to  Roxton,  in  the  parish  of  Great  Barford,  has  been  repaired. 

19t.h  October.  Certificate  that  a  highway  leading  from  the  village  of  234 
Dunton  to  the  village  of  Sutton,  commencing  at  the  hand  post  near 
the  village  of  Dunton,  and  proceeding  northwardly  between  inclosures 
to  the  parish  of  Sutton,  which  it  enters  at  a  bridge  between  the  parish 
of  -Dunton  and  the  parish  of  Sutton,  1  mile  and  26  poles  long,  and 
40  feet  wide  or  thereabouts,  has  been  repaired  (see  also  No.  387). 

19th  October.  Certificate  that  a  highway  leading  from  the  parish  of  235 
Southill  to  the  parish  of  Clophill,  situate  in  the  parish  of  Hawnes, 
branching  out  of  the  public  carriage  road  leading  from  Deadman's 
Cross  Turnpike  to  Hawnes  Church  End  at  Appleywood  corner,  and 
proceeding  nearly  south-westwardly  through  old  inclosures  in  the  parish 
of  Hawnes,  till  it  enters  the  parish  of  Clophill,  5  furlongs  and  5^  yards 
long,  and  15  feet  wide  or  thereabouts,  has  been  repaired. 

19th  October.  Certificate  that  the  highway  leading  from  the  village  of  236 
Flitton  to  the  village  of  Westoning,  in  the  parish  of  Pulloxhill, 
commencing  at  a  part  of  the  said  road  at  Greenfield,  and  continuing  till 
it  enters  the  parish  of  Westoning,  of  the  length  of  1  furlong,  and  of 
the  breadth  of  30  feet  or  tliereabouts,  has  been  repaired  (see  also 
No.  373). 

19th  October.  Certificate  that  a  highway  leading  from  the  village  of  237 
])unton  to  the  village  of  Sutton,  in  the  parish  of  Sutton,  commencing 
at  a  bridge  dividing  the  parish  of  Sutton  and  the  parish  of  Dunton, 
and  proceeding  nearly  northwardly  to  a  hand  post  near  the  village  of 
Sutton,  where  it  enters  another  common  highway  leading  from  Sutton 
to  the  town  of  Potton,  containing  in  length  7  furlongs  and  29  poles, 
and  in  breadth  20  feet  or  thereabouts,  has  been  repaired. 

19th  October.      Certificate  of  the  jailer   of   Bedford  Gaol   that   the  rules    244 
made  for  the  comfort  of  the  prisoners  are  complied  with. 

19th  October-.     Certificate  that  the  dwelling  iiouse  of  Mary  Cnrrney,  in    245 
the  parish  of  Willington,  is  inteirded   to   be  used  as   a   church    of  the 
United  Brethren. 

25th  December.     Certified   Return  of  the  1st  Bedfordshire  Local  Militia,    246 
consisting    of    I    lieiitenant-colunel    commandant,    1    lieuteiraut-colonel, 
1    nrajor,  8   captains,   9   lieutenairts,    1    ensign,    1   corporal,   1   surgeon, 
I  (quarter  master,  and  700  rank,  and  tile.     Names  of  officers  given. 


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247  25th  December.     Certified  Return  of  the  2nd  Regiment  of  Bedfordshire 

Local  Militia,  consisting  of  I  lieutenant-colonel  commandant,  1  lieu- 
tenant-colonel, 2  majors,  8  captains,  1  lieutenant,  1  adjutant,  1  surgeon, 
1  quarter  master,  and  685  rank  and  file.     Names  of  the  officers  given. 

248  25th  December.     Certified  Return  of  the  Bedford  Regiment  of  Militia, 

consisting  of  1  colonel  commandant,  1  lieutenant-colonel,  1  major, 
4  captains,  3  lieutenants,  3  surgeon  mates,  3  ensigns,  1  captain  and 
adjutant,  1  surgeon,  1  quarter  master,  and  225  rank  and  file.  Names 
of  the  officers  given. 

275  12th  February.  Account  of  Benjamin  Jefferies  for  £2  5s.  6d.  for 
clearing  Barford  Bridge  of  ice. 

312  18th  July.  Account  for  £220  for  repairing  a  public  oarriage  road  in  the 
parish  of  Maldin,  called  "  Summersey  Lane  "  (see  also  No.  417). 

321  28th  October.  Estimate  of  the  expence  of  making  a  horse  way  leading 
from  the  boundary  of  Haynes  Parish  to  the  carriage  road  leading  from 
Haynes  Church  End  to  Clophill,  being  62  chains,  50  links. 


333    30th  November.     Estimate  of  £390  Os.  Od.  for  repairing  a  road  in  the 
hamlet  of  Egginton,  parish  of  Leighton  Buzzard. 


334  30th  November.  Estimate  of  the  cost  of  repairing  a  road  in  the  parish 
of  Hockliffe  leading  from  the  village  of  Hockliffe  to  the  turnpike  gate, 
being  51  chains  and  50  links. 


340    8th  November.     Account  of  Thomas  Evans  for  scaffolding  and  flat  joint 
pointing  Haiiowdeii  Bridge. 

374  12th  January.     Presentment  that  there  is  a  highway  leading  from  the 

town  of  Shidlingtun  to  Higham  Gobion,  part  whereof  beginning  at  a 
brook  which  divides  the  parishes  of  Shidlington  and  Higham  Gobion, 
and  which  highway  ends  at  a  brook  which  divides  the  parish  of 
Higham  Gobion  and  the  parish  of  Barton-le-Cley,  containing  in  length 
2200  yards,  and  in  breadth  30  feet,  is  in  a  state  of  decay,  and  the 
inhabitants  of  Higham  Gobion  ought  to  repair  the  same. 

375  12th    January.       Presentment    that    there    is    a    highway    leading    from 

liedford  to  SheHonl,  a  certain  part  whereof  calleil  the  Rowney  Warren 
Turnpike!  Road,  ])eing  in  the  to\vnshi[)  of  youthill,  in  the  parish  of 
8(juthill,  containing  in  length  2000  yards,  and  in  i)readth  30  feet,  is  in 
a  state  of  decay,  and  tlie  inhabitants  of  the  townshii)  of  Southill  ought 
to  repair  the  same. 


149 

13th  July.  Presentment  that  tliere  is  a  highway  leading  from  Upper  380 
Giavenhurst  to  Ion  in  the  parish  of  Lower  Gravenhurst,  a  certain  part 
whereof  called  the  Ion  Road,  situated  in  the  parish  of  UpperGravenhurst, 
containing  in  length  1380  yards,  and  in  breadth  20  feet,  is  in  a  state 
of  decay,  and  the  inhabitants  of  Upper  Gravenhurst  ought  to  repair 
the  same. 

13th  July.      Presentment  that  a  part  of  the  liighway  leading  from  Luton    381 
to    Hitchin,    called    the    Hitchin    road,    in    the    hamlet   of    Stopsley, 
containing  in  length  3000  yards,  and  in  breadth   20  feet,  is  in  a  very 
ruinous  state,  and  that  the  inhabitants  of  Stopsley  ought  to  repair  it. 

13th  July.     Presentment  that  part  of  the  highway  leading  from  Luton    382 
to    Hitchin,    called    the    Hitchin    road,    in    the    township    of    Luton, 
1400  yards  long,  and  20  feet  wide,  is  in  a  state  of  decay,  and  that  the 
inhabitants  of  Luton  ought  to  repair  the  same. 

13th  July.     Presentment  that  there  is  a  highway  leading  from  Silsoe  to    383 
Shitlington,  part  whereof  in  the  parish  of  Clophill,  40  poles  long,  and 
30  feet    broad,    is   in   a  state   of  decay,   and    that    the    inhabitants   of 
of  Clophill  ought  to  repair  the  same. 

19th  October.  ^  Presentment  that  tliere  is  a  highway  leading  from  the  388 
village  of  Everton  to  the  town  of  Potton,  part  whereof  lying  in  the  parish  of 
Tempsford,  containing  in  length  1386  yards,  and  in  breadth  30  feet,  is 
in  a  state  of  decay  ;  and  also  that  upon  another  highway  leading  from 
Everton  to  Potton,  308  yards  long,  and  30  feet  wide,  there  has  been 
placed  a  quantity  of  gravel,  sand  and  earth,  so  as  to  form  a  high  and 
dangerous  ridge  along  the  said  highway,  rendering  it  unsafe,  and  that 
the  inhabitants  of  Ten)psford  ought  to  re})air  both  these  said  highways. 

19th  October.     Presentment  that  there  is  a  certain  highway  leading  from    389 
Cockayne  Hatley  to  the  village  of  Sandy,   part  whereof  lying  m  the 
parish  of  Potton,  containing  in  length  1342  yards  or  thereabouts,  and 
in  breadth  30  feet  or  thereabouts,  is  in  a  state  of  decay,  and  that  the 
inhabitants  of  Potton  ought  to  repair  the  same. 

19th  Octobpr.  Presentment  that  there  is  a  highway  leading  from  the  390 
town  of  Anipthill  to  the  town  of  Hawnes,  a  certain  part  whereof  lying 
in  the  parish  of  Clophill,  commencing  from  the  west  of  a  certain  tree° 
called  Stocks  Tree,  in  the  parish  of  Clophill,  and  continuing  eastwards 
towards  the  parish  of  Hawnes,  containing  in  length  484  yards,  and  in 
breadth  16  feet,  is  in  a  state  of  decay,  and  that  the  inhahi'tants  of 
Clophill  ought  to  repair  the  same. 

19th  October.  Presentment  that  there  is  a  highway  leading  from  the  391 
town  of  Harlington  to  the  town  of  Luton,  part'whereof  situated  in  the 
parish  of  Sunden,  commencing  at  the  parish  of  Harlington,  and 
continuing  from  thence  for  tlie  length  of  100  yards,  aiul  the  breadth  of 
30  feet,  IS  in  a  state  of  decay,  and  that  the  inhabitants  of  Sunden 
ought  to  repair  it. 


150 

392  19th  October.     Presentment  that  there  is  a  highway  leading  from  the 

town  of  Bartou-iii-tlie-Clay  to  the  parish  of  Luton,  part  whereof 
beginning  at  a  tree  near  the  top  of  Barton  Hill,  and  ending  at  a  place 
called  Dray's  Ditches  in  the  parish  of  Streatley,  containing  in  length 
about  4000  yards,  and  in  breadth  about  25  feet,  is  in  a  state  of  decay, 
and  that  the  inhabitants  of  the  parish  of  Streatley  ought  to  repair  the 
same. 

393  19th  October.     Presentment  that  there  is  a  highway  leading  from  the 

village  of  Maulden  to  the  town  of  Clophill,  a  certain  part  whereof 
commencing  from  Maulden  Wood  Corner  adjoining  the  parish  of 
Hawnes,  and  continuing  to  the  arch  across  the  road  next  and  adjoining 
the  parish  of  Clophill,  and  containing  in  length  693  yards,  and  in 
breadth  20  feet,  is  in  a  state  of  decay,  and  that  the  inhabitants  of 
Maulden  ought  to  repair  the  same. 

394  19th  October.     Presentment  that  there  is  a  highway  leading  from  the 

village  of  Tingrith  to  the  village  of  Hartlington,  and  that  a  certain 
part  thereof  lying  in  the  parish  of  Westoning,  called  the  Westoning 
Road,  containing  in  length  1  mile,  and  in  breadth  20  feet,  is  in  a  state 
of  decay,  and  that  the  inhabitants  of  Westoning  ought  to  repair  the 
same. 

395  19th  October.      Presentment  that  there  is  a  highway  leading  from  the 

village  of  P'.yworth  to  the  town  of  Bigleswade,  one  part  whereof  in 
the  parish  of  Dunton,  containing  in  length  946  yards,  and  in  breadth 
30  feet,  is  in  a  state  of  decay  ;  and  also  that  upon  another  part  of  the 
said  higliway,  956  yards  long,  and  30  feet  wide,  have  been  placed 
great  quantities  of  stone,  gravel,  sand  and  earth,  so  as  to  form  a  high 
and  dangerous  ridge  which  renders  the  road  unsafe,  and  that  the 
inhabitants  of  Dunton  ought  to  repair  the  same. 

396  19th  October.     Presentment  that  there  is  a  highway  leading  from  the 

town  of  Potton  to  the  parish  of  Blunham,  part  whereof  lying  in  the 
parish  of  Sandy,  770  yards  long,  and  30  feet  broad,  is  in  a  state  of 
decay,  and  that  the  inhabitants  of  Sandy  ought  to  repair  the  same. 

397  19th  October.      Presentment  that  there  is  a  highway  leading  from  Potton 

to  the  village  of  Eyworth,  part  whereof  in  the  parish  of  Wrestlingworth, 
1166  yards  long,  and  40  feet  wide,  is  in  a  state  of  decay,  and  that  the 
inhabitants  of  the  parish  of  Wrestlingworth  ought  to  repair  the  same, 

398  19ih    October.       Presentment    that    there    is    a    highway    leading   from 

Gamlingay,  in  the  county  of  Cambridge,  to  the  town  of  St.  Keots,  in 
the  County  of  Huntingdon,  and  that  a  certain  part  thereof  lying  in  the 
parish  of  Everton,  containing  in  length  2882  yards,  and  in  breadth 
30  feet  is  in  a  state  of  decay  ;  and  also  that  there  is  another  part  of  the 
said  highway,  containing  in  length  264  yards,  and  in  breadth  30  feet, 
U[)on  which  were  placed  great  quantities  of  gravel,  sand  and  earth,  so  as  to 
make  a  ridge  along  the  said  highway,  thereby  rendeiing  it  unsafe,  and 
that  the  inhabitants  of  the  parish  of  Everton  ought  to  repair  them 
both. 


151 


19th  October.  Presentment  that  tliere  is  a  hiahway  loading  from  the 
town  of  Sil.soe,  in  the  parisli  of  Flitton,  towjirds  tlie  parish  olf  Streatlev 
and  that  a  certain  part  thereof,  called  Barton  Hill  Koad,  lying  in  the 
parish  of  Barton-in-the-Clay,  containing  in  length  about  3000  yards 
and  in  breadth  about  25  feet,  is  in  a  state  of  decay,  and  that  the 
inhabitants  of   the   parish   of  Barton-iri-the-Clay   ought   to    repair   the 


399 


same. 


400 


401 


19th  October.  Presentment  that  there  is  a  highway  leading  from  the 
town  of  Potton  to  the  village  of  Wrestlingworth,  and  that  a  certain 
part  thereof  lying  in  the  j.arish  of  Cockayne  Hatley,  containing  in 
length  1144  feet,  and  in  breadtli  30  feet,  is  in  a  state  of  decay,  and 
that  the  inhabitants  of  Cockayne  Hatley  ought  to  repair  the  same. 

19th  October.  Presentment  that  there  is  a  highway  leading  from  the 
town  of  Baldock,  in  the  County  of  Hertford,  to  the  parish  of  Uunton 
a  certain  part  whereof  in  the  hamlet  of  Stratton,  in  the  parish  of 
Biggleswade,  commencing  from  the  turnpike  road  leading  from  the 
town  of  Baldock  until  it  joins  the  parish  of  Dunton,  containing  in 
length  1  mile,  2  furlongs,  18  yards,  and  in  breadth  29  feet,  8  inches 
or  thereabouts,  is  in  a  state  of  decay,  and  that  the  inhabitants  of 
btratton  ought  to  repair  the  same. 

19th  October^     Presentment  that  there  is  a  highway  leading  from   the    409 
town     of    Potton   to    the    village    of    Arrington,    in    the    County    of 

?filH  V  ^'l^'  ""Yl'ni  ^^'"^'  "^  '^'  P^^'^^^^  «f  Cockayne  Hatley, 
2618  yards  long,  and  30  feet  wide,  is  in  a  state  of  decay  ;  and  tha 

pouoirto  th'  ''T,' ''  fv"'''  ""'^''-'^  '^^'''^^  f'-"  'h;  town : 

Potton  to  he  village  of  Arnngton,  have  been  placed  quantities  of 
gravel,  sand  and  earth,  so  as  to  form  a  high  ridge  ahnig  he  hi-hway 
and  make  it  dangerous,  and  that  the  inhabitants  of  Cockayne  Hatley 
ought  to  repair  both  these  said  highways.  ^  ^ 

19th  October.  Presentment  that  there  is  a  certain  highway  leadin-^  from  403 
the  village  of  Cockayne  Hatley  to  the  village  of  Eyworth  a  ce  .a 
part  whereof  lying  in  the  parish  of  Wi^stlingworth,  on^aiin" 
1062  yards  in  lengtli,  and  30  feet  in  breadth,  is  in  a  sta  e  of  .lecay" 
and  that  upon  another  road  leading  fron,  Cockayne  Hatley  to  Eywc  rtV 
0  yards  long,  and  30  feet  wide  has  been  placed  a  quantity  of^o  -"1'' 
and  and  ear  h  forming  a  high  ri.lge  and  rendering  t  dangorou^  a,  d 
that  the  >nhabUants  of  Wrestlingworth  ought  to  repair  th.m  both'. 

5th  February.  Letter  from  John  Wing  to  the  magistrates,  "  I  he^  leave  to 
lay  before  you  the  inclosed  account  for  extra  bHck  wo  k  that^l  on„d 
necessary  to  add  in  the  building  of  the  Lunatic  Asylum  Af  e,  havi  i 
et  out  the  building  and  taken  the  levels  to  (Remer  Snrin  1 J 
^rnnnation  of  the  drain,  I  found  it  requisite  to^ndsftl^'  S^„  " 
floor  full  15  inches  to  get  a  sufficient  fall  for   the   drain     and    hvm 

particular,  without  the  rustices,   1  was  under  the  necessity  of  raising 


410 


152 

the  ground  ;uul  one  pair  storys  9  inches  each,  or  of  lowering  them 
3  inches,  in  order  to  set  the  strings  or  facias  on  the  level  with  the 
floors.  The  two  pair  floor  I  have  raised  18  inches,  and  my  reasons  for 
so  doing  was  to  give  to  the  elevation  a  more  pleasing  appearance  and 
to  keep  up  the  windows  in  the  cells  a  greater  height  from  the  floor. 
The  sum  charged  for  the  estimate  is  the  same  I  paid  to  Mr.  Cloake  ; 
for  the  plans  I  make  no  charge." 

412  29th  September.     Woburn.      Letter  from  Robert  Salmon  to  John  Miller, 

informing  him  that  his  contract  for  Bromham  Bridge  is  completed  ; 
and  advising  that  the  road  over  the  bridge  should  be  well  looked  after 
this  winter,  and  oH"ering  to  repair  the  same  up  to  Lady  Day  for  £20. 

413  16th    October.     Southill.     Letter    from    jNIr.    Whitbread   to  Mr.   Pearce, 

asking  that  a  presentment  may  be  prepared  of  the  road  in  the  hamlet 
of  Stratton,  leading  one  way  to  Dunton  and  the  other  way  to 
Biggleswade. 

417  6th  July.     Measurement  of  part  of  a  carriage  road  called  Linunersley 

Lane,  in  the  parish  of  Maiden,  branching  out  of  a  public  highway 
leading  from  Clophill  to  Ampthill,  and  proceeding  north-eastwardly 
for  6  furlongs  and  4  poles.  The  remaining  part  of  the  said  lane,  from 
the  piece  last  described,  having  been  already  repaired  (see  also 
No.  312). 

418  8th  July.      Particulars    of  the  measurement  of  the  turnpike  road  leading 

from  Hockliffe  Lane  End,  adjoining  the  London  Road,  to  the  cross  in 
the  town  of  Leighton  Buzzard  ;  with  particulars  of  the  materials  used 
in  the  parishes  of  Hockliffe,  Egginton  and  Leighton. 

419  10th  July.      Notice  that  application  will  be  made  to  the  Justices  of  the 

Peace  for  an  equal  assessment  upon  all  the  occupiers  of  lands,  &c.,  in 
the  parish  of  Sharnbrook  for  the  use  of  the  highways  in  the  said 
parish  (see  also  No.  426). 

427  9th  October.     Notice  that  the  Surveyors  of  the  highways  for  the  town  of 

("ardington  intend  to  apply  for  a  rate  of  9d.  in  the  pound  for  the 
necessary  repair  of  the  highways  in  the  said  township. 

428  10th    October.      Description    of    2    roads    in    Cockinhatloy   parish  : — one 

leailing  from  Wrestlingworth  to  where  it  divides,  and  another  road 
leading  from  Potton  lioundaiy  to  Mr.  Hart's  house,  and  the  same  road 
leading  towards  Tutlen  and  Harrenton. 


429  15th  October.  Particulars  of  the  survey  of  a  road  in  the  handet  of 
Stratton,  in  the  parish  of  Biggleswade,  from  the  turn[)ike  road  leading 
to  Baldock  until  it  joins  the  parish  of  Dunton. 


153 

25th  October.     Description  of  "Warden   Road,  in  the  Parish  of  Warden,    430 

leading  from  Little  Mill  Bridge,  to  the  end  of  that  road. 

Measurement  of  a  lane  called  Clophill  Great  Lane,  from  Mr.   Butcher's    435 
pales'  corner  to  just  beyond  the  sand  pits,  of  the  length  of  484  yards. 


CALENDAR. 
1815. 

30th  December.      Notice  by  Joseph   llarker  that  he  intends,  at  the  next    37 
General  Quarter  Sessions,  to  appeal  against  the  last  levy-rate  made  for 
the  relief  of  the  poor  of  the  parish  of  Great  Barford. 

11th  January.  Order  at  Quarter  Sessions  that  the  inhabitants  of  the  '57 
Parish  of  Flitton  do  pay  a  fine  of  £612  for  not  repairing  a  part  of  a 
common  highway  leading  from  the  village  of  Flitton  to  the  village  of 
Westoning  in  the  parish  of  Flitton,  commencing  at  the  parish  Church 
of  Flitton,  and  continuing  until  it  enters  the  parish  of  Westoning,  for 
the  length  of  2  miles,  1  furlong,  and  of  the  breadth  of  30  feet  or 
thereabouts  (see  also  No.  73). 

Order  that  a  report  be  made  of  the  above  (see  also  No,  73).  58 

11th  January.     Order  at  Quarter  Sessions  that  a  report  be  made  upon  the    59 
.state  of  a  common  highway  leading  from  the  the  town  of  Potton  to  the 
village  of  Wrestlingwoith,  in  the  parish  Cockayne  Hatley,  containing 
in  length  1144  yards  and  in  breadth  30  feet. 

11th  January.     Order  that  the  inhabitants  of  Cockayne  Hatley  pay  a  fine    60 
of  £1057  for  not  reparing  the  same  (see  also  No.  69). 

11th  January.     Order  at  Quarter  Sessions  that  a  report  be  made  upon  the    61 
state  of  a  common  highway  leading  from  the  village  of  Tingrith  to  the 
village  of  Hartlington.  being  in  the  parish  of  Westoning,  commonly 
called  the  Westoning  Road  containing  in  length  1  mile  and  in  breadth 
20  feet  (see  also  No  72). 

11th  Jaouary.     Order  that  the  inhabitants  of  the  parish  of  Westoning  do    62 
])av  a  Wiw  of  £.'190  for  not  repairing  the  said  highway  (see  also  Nos. 
233  and  680;. 

11th  January.      Order  at  Quarter  Sessions  fixing  thfi  sums  to  be  paid   for    63 
the  hiie  of  carriages  employed  in  the  conveyan.cc  of  troops  in  addition 
to  the  customary  rates  of  1/-,  9d.  and  6d.  jier  mile  respectively  fixed  by 
the  act  54  (Jeo.  III.  c.  25      The  sums  are  similar  to  thui^e  set  out  in 
the  order  of  1813  (see  also  No.  77). 


in4 

65  11th  January.  Order  at  Quarter  Sessions  that  a  report  be  made  upon  the 
state  of  part  of  a  common  highway  leading  from  the  village  of  Hockliffe 
to  the  town  of  Leighton  Buzzard,  lying  in  the  parish  of  Kgginton 
leading  from  a  turnpike  gate  in  the  Parish  of  Hockliffe  to  a  certain  old 
road  leading  to  the  hamlet  of  Egginton  containing  in  length  495  yards, 
and  in  breadth  30  feet,  and  also  a  certain  other  part  of  the  same 
highway,  lying  in  the  hamlet  of  Egginton,  leading  from  Egginton 
Corner  to  the  town  of  Leighton  Buzzard  1573  yards  long,  and  30  feet 
broad  (see  also  iSTo.  68). 


66  lltli  January.     Order   that   the  inhabitants  of  the  hamlet  of  Egginton  do 

]iay  a  fine  of  £747  for  not  repairing  the  said  highway  (see  also 
Xos.  222  and  377). 

67  11th  January.     Order  at  Quarter  Sessions  that  a  report  be  made  on  part 

of  a  common  highway,  leading  from  the  town  of  Potton  to  the  village 
of  Arrington,  in  the  county  of  Cambridge,  lying  in  the  parish  of 
Cockayne  Hatley,  containing  in  length  2613  yards,  and  in  breadth 
30  feet. 


70  llth  January.     Order  at  Quarter  Sessions  that  a  report  be  made  on  the 

state  of  part  of  a  common  highway  leading  from  the  village  of  Maulden 
to  the  town  of  Clophill,  situate  in  the  parish  of  Maulden,  commencing 
from  Maulden  Wood  Corner,  adjoining  the  parish  of  Hawnes,  and 
continuing  to  the  arch  across  the  road,  next  to  the  parish  of  Clophill, 
and  containing  in  length  693  yards  and  in  breadth  20  feet. 

71  11th  January.     Order  that  the  inhabitants  of  the  parish  of  Maulden   do 

pay  a  fine  of  £453  for  not  repairing  the  said  highway  (see  also 
No.  221). 

74  11th    January.     Order    at   Quarter  Sessions   that  the  inhabitants  of  the 

parish  of  Higham  Gobion  do  pay  a  fine  of  £233  for  not  repairing  a 
certaiin  part  of  a  highway  leading  from  the  village  of  Ptilloxhill  to  the 
village  of  Silsoe,  in  the  parish  of  Higham  Gobion,  commencing  from 
the  Bedford  Turnpike  Koad  at  the  point  where  the  said  turnpike  road 
joins  a  lane  called  ^Marquis  Lane,  and  leading  through  the  said  lane  to 
a  bridge  in  the  parish  of  Pulloxhill  of  the  length  of  31  chains  (see  also 
Nos.  225  and  378). 

75  11th  January.     Order  at  Quarter  Sessions  that  a  report  be  made  on  the 

state  of  part  of  a  highway  "  leading  out  of  the  ])arish  of  Kempston  " 
to  a  place  in  the  parish  of  Kempston  (tailed  Kempston  Hardwicke, 
situate  in  the  said  parish  of  Kempston,  branching  out  of  the  road 
leading  from  the  several  parishes  of  Kempston,  Wootton,  and  Marston, 
and  proceeding  nearly  south-eastwardly  to  a  certain  place  called 
Kempston  Hardwicke,  where  it  enters  the  turnpike  road  leading  from 
the  town  of  Bedford  to  the  town  of  Ampthill,  of  tlie  length  of  1  mile, 
1  furlong,  and  11  yards,  and  of  the  width  of  30  feet, 


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5th  April.  Order  at  Quarter  Sessions.  Reciting,  that  on  the  application  78 
of  the  Keverend  William  Mansfield,  Rector  of  Milton  Bryant,  the 
Justices,  by  virtue  of  an  act  passed  in  33^-  Geo.  III.  intituled  "An  act 
for  dividing  and  inclosing  the  open  and  common  fields  and  meadows, 
common  pastures  and  other  commonable  lauds  and  grounds  within  the 
parish  of  Milton  Bryant  in  the  county  of  Bedford  ;  have  appointed 
James  Lilburne  of  Southill,  and  Thomas  Lilburne  of  Cardington, 
together  with  another  person  to  be  chosen,  as  arbitrators  for  enquiring 
into  and  ascertaining  from  the  London  Gazette  what  had  been  the 
average  price  of  a  Winchester  bushel  of  marketable  wheat  for  the  past 
21  years, 

14th  October.     Notice  that  Charles  Austin,  of  the  parish  of  Ampthill,  is    88 
to  be  appointed  High  Constable  for  the  hundred  of  Redbornstoke,'  in 
the  room  of  Ambrose  Piatt,  of  Millbrook. 

26th  July.  Information  that  there  is  a  highway  leading  from  Shefford  90 
to  Hitchin  in  the  county  of  Hertford,  a  certain  part  whereof  lying 
between  a  place  called  Shefford  Bridge,  and  another  place  called 
Henlow-Dane-Bridge,  128  chains  long,  one  side  of  which  lies  in  the 
parish  of  Meppershall,  and  ought  to  be  repaired  by  that  parish,  and 
the  other  side  lies  in  the  parish  of  Clifton,  and  ought  to  be  repaired  by 
that  parish,  and  praying  that  such  part  of  such  highway  may  be 
allotted  for  the  repairs  thereof  by  the  Justices  to  the  several  parishes 
of  Meppershall  and  Clifton,  as  directed  by  the  Act  34  Geo.  III. 
The  said  Justices  therefore  order  that  the  highway  shall  be  divided 
in  the  following  manner,  viz*.,  at  the  distance  of  32  chains,  measuring 
from  Shefford  Bridge,  there  shall  be  erected  certain  posts  or  stones  on 
each  side  of  the  highway  marked  A  and  B,  and  also  that  at  the 
distance  of  96  chains,  measuring  from  Shett'ord  Bridge,  shall  be  erected 
certain  posts  or  stones  marked  C  and  D  on  each  side  of  the  highway  ; 
and  the  whole  of  the  said  highway  from  Shefford  Bridge  to  the  posts 
marked  A  and  B,  and  from  the  posts  or  stones  marked  C  and  J)  to 
Henlow-Dane-Bridge,  containing  in  the  whole  64  chains,  shall  be 
repaired  by  the  parish  of  Clifton,  and  the  whole  of  the  highway  from 
the  posts  or  stones  marked  A  and  B  to  the  posts  or  stones  inarked 
C  and  D,  containing  64  chains,  shall  be  repaired  by  the  parish  of 
Meppershall. 

Plan  relating  to  the  above  highway.  gg 

26th  July.  Information  that  there  is  a  highway  leading  from  Shefford  92 
to  Hitchm  in  the  county  of  Hertford,  a  certain  part  whereof  lying 
between  Henlow-Dane-Bridge  and  a  place  called  Deep  Ditch,  at  the 
corner  of  Chapel  Pastures,  being  in  length  46  chains,  one  side  of 
which,  lying  in  the  parish  of  Meppershall,  ougiit  to  be  repaired  by 
that  parish,  and  the  other  side,  lying  within  the  i)arish  of  Henlow 
ought  to  be  repaired  by  that  parish  ;  and  praying  that  such  part  of  the 
said  highway  may  be  apportioned  for  the  repair  thereof  by  the  Justices 
to   the  several  parishes  of  Meppershall  and  Henlow.     The  Justices 


156 

therefore  order  that  the  said  highway  shall  be  divided  in  the  following 
manner  ; — that  is  to  say,  that  at  the  distance  of  23  chains,  measuring 
from  Henlow-Dane-Briilge,  there  shall  be  erected  certain  posts  or 
stones  on  each  side  of  the  said  highway  marked  A  and  B,  and  the 
whole  of  the  said  highway  from  the  place  called  Henlow-Dane-Bridge 
to  such  posts  or  stones  shall  be  repaired  by  the  parish  of  Meppershall  ; 
and  the  wdiole  of  the  highway  from  such  posts  or  stones  to  the  place 
called  Deep  Ditch  at  the  corner  of  Chapel  Pastures,  shall  be  repaired 
by  the  parish  of  Henlow. 

91    Plan  relating  to  the  above  highway. 

209  11th  January.     Certificate  that  a  certain  part  of  a  highway  in  the  parish 

of  Clophill,  commencing  from  the  west  of  a  tree  called  Stocks  Tree 
in  the  parish  of  Clophill,  and  continuing  eastward  towards  the  [tarish 
of  Hawnes,  containing  in  length  484  yard.s,  and  in  breadth  16  feet,  has 
been  repaired. 

210  1st  July.     Certificate    that   a    certain    new    footway    in    the    hamlet   of 

Stopsley,  in  the  parish  of  Luton,  part  of  the  footway  leading  from  the 
village  of  Lilley,  in  the  county  of  Hertfoid,  to  the  town  of  Luton, 
commencing  at  the  north  corner  of  a  close  of  John  Sowerby,  Esquire, 
in  the  hamlet  of  Stopsley,  called  the  Thrift,  which  new  footway 
contains  in  length  45  perches,  and  was  set  out  through  the  lands  of 
the  said  John  Sowerby  pursuant  to  an  order  of  the  Justices  of  the 
Peace  for  diverting  and  turning  that  part  of  the  ancient  footway  from 
the  village  of  Lilley  to  the  town  of  Luton,  is  in  a  state  of  good  repair. 

211  12th  July.     Certificate  that  a  common  highway,  leading  from  the  town 

of  Harlington  to  tlie  town  of  Luton,  situate  in  the  parish  of  Sundon, 
commencing  at  the  parish  of  Harlingtun  and  continuing  for  the  length 
of  100  yards,  and  of  the  breadth  of  30  feet,  has  been  repaired. 

212  ^'-^th  July.     Certificate  that  a  certain  highway,  leading  fmm  the  village 

of  Flitton  to  the  village  of  Clophill,  situate  in  the  parish  of  Flittoii, 
commencing  at  the  hand-post  in  or  near  the  village  of  Flitton  and 
continuing  to  a  place  called  Warehedges  towards  the  village  of 
Clophill,  for  the  length  of  2  furlongs  and  32  poles  and  of  the  breadth 
of  23  feet,  has  been  repaired. 

213  12th  July.     Certificate  that  a  certain  bridge  lying  in  the  several  parishes 

of  Biddenham,  Kenipston,  and  Bromham,  leading  from  the  market 
town  of  Newport  Pagnell,  in  the  county  of  Buckingham,  to  the  market 
town  of  Bedford,  has  been  repaired. 

214  12th  July,     Certificate  that  a  certain   highway  leading  from  the  village 

of  Flitton  to  the  village  of  Westoning,  in  the  parish  of  Flitton, 
commencing  at  the  parish  church  of  Flitton,  and  continuing  until  it 
enters  the  parish  of  Westoning  for  the  length  of  2  miles  1  furlong,  and 
of  the  breadth  of  30  feet,  has  been  repaired. 


157 

12th  July.     Certificate  that  a  certain  highway  leading  from  the  town  of    215 
IJarton  to  the  parish  of  Luton,  heginning  at  a  "  lone  tree"  near  the  top 
of  Barton  hill  and  ending  at  a  plat-e  called  Dracj's  Ditches,  lying  in  the 
parish    of    Streatiy,    containing    in    length    ahout    4000   yards,   and    in 
breadth  about  25  feet,  has  been  repaired. 

7th  October.     Certificate  that  the  undermentioned  roads  and  highways  in    l>I6 
the  parish  of  Koxton  have  been  repaired,  viz.  : — ■ 

One  public  carriage  road  branching  out  of  the  Great  North  Road  opposite 
the  Gravel  Pitts  and  proceeding  in  a  westwardly  direction  through  and 
over  Nag's  Head  Field  to  the  street  in  the  hamlet  of  Chawson,  at  the 
south-east  corner  of  an  old  inclosure,  in  the  occupation  of  James  Barker, 
and  continuing  through  the  said  hamlet  and  along  the  south-west 
corner  of  an  old  inclosure  belonging  to  Charles  James  Metcalfe,  Esquire, 
called  Farm  Close,  along  the  north  side  of  South  Brook  Common  to  an 
old  inclosure  called  Coble's  Orchard,  and  across  the  said  Coble's 
Orchard  and  Chappel  Mead  to  Colesden  Green,  and  along  the  south 
side  of  the  said  Colesden  Green  to  the  north  side  of  Jiggle  Field  and  to 
the  parish  of  Colmworth. 

One  other  public  carriage  road  and  highway  branching  out  of  the  Bedford 
Turnpike  Koad  at  Broad  Moor  opposite  the  north-west  corner  of  an  old 
inclosure  belonging  to  Bobert  Aipes,  and  proceeding  in  a  northward 
direction  over  the  said  Broad  jAIoor  and  in  part  by  the  east  side  of  Oak 
Hedge  between  Green  Ditch  Field  and  Colesden  Bush  Field  to  the 
south-east  corner  of  Long  Spinney,  and  by  the  east  side  of  the  said 
Spinney,  and  an  ancient  inclosure  called  Spring  Close  to  and  across 
Chawson  Brook,  and  through  and  over  Pound  Close  to  the  street  of 
Chawson  at  or  near  the  common  Pound,  and  along  the  west  side  of 
Broad  Close  to  and  over  Nag's  Head  P'ield  afoiesaid  to  the  boundary 
fence  of  the  hamlet  of  Wy boston,  and  by  the  .south  side  of  the  said 
boundary  to  the  end  of  a  i.ublic  road  in  the  said  hamlet  called  the 
Sheackers  Way  Koad. 

And  one  other  public  cariiage  road  and  highway  from  the  Great  North  Boad, 
at  or  near  Tempsford  i]ridge,  in  a  westward  direction  over  Bridge  FieKl 
to  and  across  old  inclosures  called  Hilliard.s,  and  to  and  along'^Church 
Lane  and  the  village  street  of  Koxton,  and  from  thence  through  the 
garden  and  Home  Close  belonging  to  the  said  Charles  James  Metcalf, 
now  or  late  in  the  occupation  of  John  Saville,  and  across  Fair  Close  to 
the  Bedford  Turnpike  Road. 

14th  October.  Certificate  that  a  certain  part  of  a  conunou  hi'dnvay  •>17 
leading  from  the  village  of  H()(dditie  to  the  town  of  Leighton  B?uzard' 
lying  111  the  hamlet  of  Fggington  in  the  parish  of  Leighton  Buzzard' 
beginning  at  or  near  a  joint  way  near  a  vo-.ul  there  leading  out  of  the 
said  road  to  the  said  village  of  Eggington,  and  contiiuiing  to  a  certain 
place  called  Eggington  Corner  in  the  hamlet  of  Eggington,  coiitainin-r 
111  length  1000  yards,  and  in  breadth  30  feet,  or  thereabouts,  has  beeC 
repaired. 


158 

218  14th  October.     Certificate  that  a  certain  part  of  a  common  highway  leading 

from  the  village  of  Hocklitfe  to  the  town  of  Leighton  Buzzard,  situate 
in  the  parish  of  HocklifFe,  commencing  at  a  place  called  Hocklitfe  Lane 
End,  and  proceeding  towards  the  town  of  Leighton  Buzzard  of  the 
length  of  5  furlongs  and  6  poles,  and  of  the  breadth  of  24  feet,  has  been 
repaired. 

219  14th  October.     Certificate    that  a    certain   part   of  a  common  highway 

leading  from  the  parish  of  Hawnes  to  the  parish  of  JMaulden,  called 
Limmersey  Lane,  commencing  at  a  certain  place  in  the  said  lane  near 
a  house  in  the  occupation  of  William  Oliver,  and  proceeding  in  a  nearly 
south-westwardly  direction,  until  it  enters  the  public  carriage  road 
leading  from  the  village  of  Clophill  to  the  town  of  Ampthill  of  the 
length  of  1  mile,  1  furlong  and  4  poles,  and  of  the  breadth  of  21  feet, 
has  been  repaired. 

224  18th  October.  Certificate  that  a  certain  part  of  a  common  highway 
leading  from  the  town  of  Baldock,  in  the  county  of  Hertford  to  the 
parish  of  Dunton,  lying  in  the  hamlet  of  Stratton  in  the  parish  of 
Biggleswade,  commencing  from  the  turnpike  road  leading  from  the 
town  of  Baldock,  until  it  joins  the  parish  of  Dunton,  containing  in 
length  1  mile,  2  furlongs,  and  118  yards,  and  in  breadth  29  feet,  has 
been  repaired. 

226  18th  October.     Certificate  that  part  of  a  common  highway  leading  from 

the  town  of  Bedford  to  the  town  of  Shefibrd  commonly  called  Rowney 
Warren  Turnpike,  lying  in  the  township  of  Southill  in  the  parish  of 
Southill,  containing  in  length  2000  yards,  and  in  breadth  30  feet,  has 
been  repaired. 

227  18th  October.     Certificate  that  part  of  a  common  highway  leading  from 

the  town  of  Luton  to  the  town  of  Hitchin  in  the  county  of  Hertford, 
commonly  called  the  Hitchin  Koad,  lying  in  the  township  of  Luton, 
containing  in  length  1400  yards,  and  in  breadth  20  feet,  ha.s  been 
repaired. 

228  18th  October.     Certificate  that  part  of  a  common  highway,  leading  from 

the  village  of  Eywortli  to  the  town  of  Biggleswade,  lying  in  the  parish 
of  Dunton,  containing  in  length  940  yards,  and  in  breadth  30  feet, 
has  been  repaired. 

229  18th  October.     Certificate  that  part  of  a  common  highway,  leading  from 

the  town  of  8ilsoe  to  >Shitlington  in  the  parish  of  Clophill,  containing 
in  length  40  poles,  and  in  breadth  30  feet,  has  been  repaired. 

230  18th  October.     Certificate  that  part  of  a  common  highway,  leading  from 

Chicksands  to  Clophill  in  the  parish  of  Clophill  at  the  conjunction 
of  the  parishes  of  Haynes  and  Clophill,  and  proceeding  nearly  in  a 
south-westwardly  direction  until  it  enter.s  the  public  carriage  road, 
leading  from  Haynes  Church  End  to  the  parish  of  Clophill,  of  the 
length  of  6  furlongs,  15  poles,  and  of  the  breadth  of  12  feet,  has  been 
repaired. 


159 

6th  November.  Certificate  tliat  a  common  hioiiway  leading  from  the  231 
village  of  Warden  to  the  town  of  Biggleswade,  situate  in  the  parish  of 
Xorthill,  called  Hill  Lane,  lying  between  the  turnpike  road  leading 
from  Oirtford  Bridge  to  the  parish  of  Clifton,  and  the  turnpike  road 
leading  from  the  town  of  Biggleswade  to  the  village  of  Tempsford, 
called  the  Great  North  Road,  of  the  length  of  1  mile,  1  furlong,  165 
yards,  and  of  the  breadth  of  11  yards  and  2  feet,  has  been  repaired. 

4th  October.     Certificate  that  the  liighway  leading  out  of  the  road  from    232 
Potton   to  Tockayne   Hatley  near  to  Potton  Church  in   a  southwardly 
direction  in  a  straight  line  to  the  parish  of  Sutton,  has  bt'en  repaired. 

18th  October.     Certificate  by  the  goaier  of  Bedford  Goal,  that  tlie  rules    242 
made  for  the  comfort  of  the  prisoners  have  been  complied  with. 

12th  July.     Certified    return    of   penalties   for   false    weights,  &c.,  from    243 
Ampthill  Petty  Sessions. 

Names  of  convicted  persons  given. 

18th  March.      Report  by  the  Grand  Jury  that  they  have  inspected  Bedford    249 
Goal  and  that  they   find   it   in   a   very    satisfactory    state    as    regards 
cleanliness    and     ventilation.      They    recommend    that    the   women's 
sleeping  rooms  be  changed  to  the  other  end  of  the  ward,  and  that  some 
of  the  rooms  have  new  floors. 

24th  January.  Estimate  that  it  will  cost  £438  19s.  6d.  to  put  into  257 
repair  that  portion  of  the  Luton  Turnpike  Road,  leading  from  the 
town  of  Bedford  to  the  town  of  Luton,  which  runs  to,  and  through 
the  parish  of  Maulden.  The  distance  from  Maulden  Wood  Corner, 
adjoining  the  parish  of  Hawnes,  to  the  arch  across  the  road  adjoining 
the  parish  of  Clophill  is  tliree  furlongs  and  6  jwles,  and  from  20  to 
24  feet  in  width. 

25th  January.     Estimate  that  it  will  cost  £200   16s.   to  repair  a  road  in    266 
the  parish  of  Higham  (4obion  leading  from  the  turnpike  roail  up  a  road 
called  Marquis  Lane  to  a   bridge  in   the   parisli    of  Pulloxhill,   heuw 
31  chains  in  length. 

25th  January.     Estimate  that  it  will  cost  £1001  8s.  Od.  to  repair  a  road    267 
leading  from  the  parish  of  Potton  to  the  parish   of  Wrestlingworth, 
lying  in  the  parisli  of  Cockayne  Hatley,  being  78  chains  95  links  long. 

25th  January.      Estimate  that  it  will  cost  £705  :  0  :  0  to  repair  part  of  a    272 
n.ad  leading  from  a  turnpike  gate  in  the  parish  of  Hockliffe  through 
the  hamlet  of  Egginton. 

6th  April.      Account  of  Hobert  Salmon  for  £30  :  0  :  0  for  e.xtra  work  at    277 
Broniham  B  rid  tie. 


IGO 

279  Gtli  April.  Account  of  J.  Pritcliaid  for  £45  Is.  for  in.sporting  the 
weights  and  balunct-s  hy  viiiuH  of  warrants  granted  by  the  Magistrates 
therein  named. 

295  6th  March.  Account  of  Jolm  Uslicr  for  £2  10s.  4d.  for  repairing  Great 
Barford  Bridge,  and  receipt  for  the  same. 

311  7th  Septemher.  Estimate  that  it  will  cost  £111  Os.  Od,  to  make  a  new 
bridge  in  the  ]iaiish  (if  "Westoning,  called  Crantield  Biidge,  "  to  be 
"  turned  on  a  ten  feet  center,  to  raise  4  feet,  to  be  20  feet  in  length, 
"  with  four  8  feet  wings,  to  be  capt  down  and  guarded  with  oak  timber, 
"side  walls  3-0  high  and  3  1)ricks  thick." 

311a    11th  September.     A  similar  Estimate  for  making  the  same  bridge,  with 
tlie  addition  of  a  9  foot  arch. 


331  25th  January.  Estimate  that  it  will  cost  £575  lis.  4d.  to  repair  a  road 
in  the  parish  of  Flitton,  "  leading  from  the  Church  Gate  in  the  parish 
<if  Flitton  to  the  parish  of  PuUoxhill  in  the  village  of  Greenfield,  being 
59  chains,  from  the  parish  of  PuUoxhill  to  the  parish  of  Westoning 
being  101  chains." 

333  25th  January.      Estimate  that  it  will  cost  £357  :  0  :  0  to  repair  a  road  in 

the  parish  of   Westoning  leading  from   the  parish  of  Tingrith   to  the 
parish  of  Harlington,  being  SO  chains  in  length  and  20  feet  in  breadth. 

334  Estimate  for  making  a  road  leading  from  the  turnpike  gate  in   the  parish 

of  Hockliffe  through  the  hamlet  of  E"mntoii. 


341  A  Return  of  the  number  of  persons  committed  to  the  gaol  at  the  Quarter 
Sessions  of  the  Peace,  hohlen  in  the  year  1815,  distinguishing  the 
crimes  for  which  they  were  imprisoned,  the  numbers  convicted  or 
discharged,  and  the  sentences  of  those  convicted. 

344  Petition  of  Charles  Bailey  adjutant  of  the  1st  regimant  Local    Militia,  and 

J.  Mitchell  adjutant  of  the  2nd  regiment  for  their  travelling  expenses 
when  attending  the  several  meetings  of  the  county  for  the  jjurpose  of 
completing  the  regiments. 

345  Petition  of  the  Beverend  William  Mansfield,  rector  of  the  parish  of  .Milton 

Bryant,  that  the  justices  will  appoint  arbitrators  to  enijuire  into  the 
price  of  aWinchester  bushel  of  wheat  in  the  county  of  Bedford  for  the 
last  21  years. 

34g  4th  January.  Presentment  that  a  public  bridge  leading  from  the  parisli 
of  Ampthill  to  the  jjarish  of  Flitton  is  in  a  state  of  decay,  and  that  the 
inhabitants  of  the  County  of  Bedford  ought  to  repair  the  same. 


161 

30th  March.  Presentment  that  there  is  a  highway  leading  from  the  355 
village  of  Sheltoii  to  the  market  town  of  Kimbolton,  in  the  county  of 
Huntingdon,  part  whereof  called  the  Dean  and  Shelton  Road,  lying 
in  the  parish  of  Dean,  containing  in  length  1200  yards  and  in  breadth 
30  feet,  is  in  a  state  of  decay,  and  that  the  inhabitants  of  the  parish  of 
Dean  ought  to  repair  the  same. 

1st  April.  Presentment  that  there  is  a  certain  highway  leading  from  357 
the  town  of  Aylesbury,  in  the  county  of  Bucks.,  to  the  town  of 
Leighton  Buzzard,  in  which  is  a  bridge  built  with  bricks  and  other 
materials  over  a  river  called  the  Ouzell,  which  bridge  is  situated  as 
follows  :  one  half  part  of  the  said  bridge,  being  the  western  part 
thereof,  and  containing  in  length  12  feet  and  in  breadth  15  feet,  is 
situate  in  the  parish  of  Linslades  in  the  county  of  Bucks.,  and  the 
other  half  part  of  the  said  bridge,  being  the  eastern  part  thereof, 
containing  in  length  13  feet  and  in  breadth  15  feet,  is  situate  in  the 
parish  of  Leighton  Buzzard,  and  that  that  part  of  the  bridge  in  the 
parish  of  Leighton  Buzzard  is  in  a  state  of  decay,  and  that  the 
inhabitants  of  the  county  of  Bedford  ought  to  repair  the  same  (see  also 
No.  368). 

1st   April.     Presentment    that  a  bridge  called  Cranfield  Bridge  over  a    359 
certain  brook  lying  in  the  parish  of  Westoning  in  the  common  highway 
leading    from    the  market  town  of  Ampthill  to  the  market  town  of 
Toddington    is    in  a  state  of  decay,  and  that  the  inhabitants  of  the 
county  of  Bedford  ought  to  repair  the  same. 

30th  March.  Presentment  that  there  is  a  highway  leading  from  the  360 
village  of  Shelton  to  the  market  town  of  Kimbolton  in  the  county  of 
Huntingdon,  part  whereof  called  the  Kimbolton  and  Dean  Eoad,  lying 
in  the  parish  of  Shelton,  containing  in  length  670  yards  and  in  breadth 
30  feet,  is  in  a  state  of  decay,  and  that  the  inhabitants  of  the  parish  of 
Shelton  ought  to  repair  the  same. 

1st  October.  Presentment  that  a  public  bridge  called  Stokes  Mills  Bridge  368 
over  a  stream  of  water  called  the  Back  Brook,  lying  in  the  parish  of 
Felmersham,  leading  from  the  parish  of  Pavenham  to  the  parish  of 
Bletsoe,  is  in  a  state  of  decay,  and  that  the  Right  Honourable  Saint 
Andrew  Lord  Saint  John,  Baron  Saint  John  of  Bletsoe  ought  to  repair 
the  said  biidge,  by  reason  of  his  tenure  of  certain  mills  and  tenements 
lying  in  the  parish  of  Bletsoe,  called  Stoke  Mills  near  to  the  said  bridge 
as  all  those  who  have  held  the  said  mills  have  been  accustomed  so  to  do. 

March.  Police  Oifice,  Gloucester.  Letter  from  Sliadrack  Charlton,  390 
Superintendent  of  Police,  to  the  Lords  Lieutenants  and  ^Magistrates  of 
llie  several  counties  of  England  and  AVales.  Recommends  that,  in  view 
of  the  many  forgeries  that  have  been  committed,  more  attention 
be  paid  to  the  granting  of  passes  or  permits;  suggests  that 
Superintendents  of  vagrants  should  be  appointed  in  every  town  of 
consequence  ;  that  aliens  should  be  provided  with  passports  from  their 


.    '  162 

respective  Consuls';  and  that  snitahlc  employment  should  be  found  for 
re-claimed  vagrants  ;  and  adds  that  this  system  has,  to  some  degree, 
been  adopted  in  the  city  of  GlQiic>ester. 

393  27th  November.  Letter  from  Eichard  Parkes  to  Theed  Pearse,  Esquire. 
States  that  the  bearer  Mr.  John  Partridge,  Farmer  at  Leagrave,  is  the 
person  mentioned  as  suitable  for  the  office  of  High  Constable  for 
the  hundred  of  Flitt,  if  his  brother  magistrates  approve  of  the  same  will 
they  have  him  sworn  into  the  said  office. 

410  List  of  roads  in  the  different  towns  which  Twydale  Dear  is  to  inspect  and 
report  upon. 


CALENDAR. 

i8i6. 

15  11th  June.  Order  for  the  removal  of  Sarah  Beer,  wife  of  John  Beer,  a 
Serjeant  in  the  16th  Regiment  of  Foot,  and  their  two  children  from  the 
parish  of  St.  Paul  in  the  town  of  Bedford,  to  the  parish  of  Wellington 
in  the  county  of  Somerset  (see  also  67). 

44  Gaol  calendar.     Epiphany  Sessions.     John  Hares  committed  for  stealing 

a  bundle  containing  a  frock,  a  coat,  and  a  pocket  handkerchief. 
Sentenced  to  be  transported  for  7  years. 

45  Gaol  calendar.     Easter    Sessions.     John    Childs    convicted    of     horse 

stealing,  and  remaining  under  reprieve  from  the  sentence  of  death. 

46  Gaol  calendar.      Midsummer  Sessions.     John  Powell,  Thomas  Jones  and 

William  Grainger,  committed  for  stealing  four  dozen  and  a  half  of 
black  worsted  stockings  and  sundry  other  goods.  All  to  be  transported 
for  7  years. 

47  Gaol  calendar.        Michaelmas    Sessions.        John    Nunn    committed    for 

having  in  his  possession  a  certain  paper  containing  words  and  figures 
in  white  on  a  black  grouml,  resembling  the  notes  of  the  Governor  and 
Company  of  the  Bank  of  England.  To  be  transported  for  14  years  (see 
post  No.  220). 

55  17th  July.  Order  at  Quarter  Sessions  that  the  following  sums  shall  be  paid 
for  the  hire  of  carriages  employed  in  the  conveyance  of  troops,  in 
addition  to  the  customary  rates  of  Is.,  9d.,  and  6d.  per  mile  respectively, 
paid  under  an  Act  56,  Geo.  III.,  that  is  to  say,  4d.  a  mile  for  any 
waggon  with  four  or  more  horses,  or  any  waggon  with  six  oxen  or  with 
four  oxen  and  two  horses,  and  3d.  a  mile  for  any  cart  with  four  hoises 
and  carrying  not  less  than  15  cwt.,  and  2d.  a  mile  for  any  curt  or 
carriage  with  less  than  four  horses  and  not  carrying  15  cwt, 


7' 


163 

17th  July.  Order  at  Quarter  Sessions  for  Twydale  Dear  of  Shitlington  to  56 
view  the  state  of  a  certain  part  of  a  comliion  and  ancient  highway 
leading  from  Gamlingay  in  the  county  of  Cambridge,  towards  the  town 
of  St.  Neots  in  the  county  of  Huntingdon,  situate  in  the  parish  of 
Everton  and  containing  in  length  2,882  yards  and  in  breadth  30  feet, 
and  also  a  certain  other  part  of  the  said  highway  leading  from 
Gamlingay  towards  the  said  town  of  St.  Neots,  containing  in  length 
264  yards  and  in  breadth  30  feet  or  thereabouts,  and  to  make  a^  report 
on  the  probable  expence  of  repairing  the  same. 

11th  January.     Record  of  the  conviction  of  James  Sims,  William  Walker,    73 
and  Thomas  White  for  poaching.    Adjudged  to  be  rogues  and  vagabonds, 
and  committed  to  the  House  of  Correction  at  Bedford. 


9th  April.     Record  of  the  conviction  of  William  Pettit  of  the  parish  of    75 
Mauldon,  for  using  a  snare  for  the  destruction  of  game.     To  forfeit  the 
sum  of  £5.  • 


10th  May.  Order  by  two  Justices  of  the  Peace,  that  part  of  a  footway  80 
within  the  parish  of  Wilden,  lying  between  W^ilden  and  Colmworth  for 
the  length  of  332  yards  or  thereabouts,  be  diverted  and  turned  so  as  to 
make  the  same  shorter  and  more  commodious  to  the  public.  The  said 
Justices  have  also  viewed  a  course  proposed  for  a  new  footway  in  lieu 
thereof,  through  the  lands  and  grounds  of  Mr.  Joseph  Willis  of  Bedford, 
Mr.  William  Fuller  of  Wilden  and  of  His  Grace  the  Duke  of  Bedford, 
of  the  length  of  289  yards  or  thereabouts. 

9th  May.     Consents  by  Edward  Blatt  of  Lidlington,  Agent  for  the  Duke    81-83 
of  Bedford,  William  Fuller  of  Wilden,  farmer,  and  Joseph  Willis  of 
Bedford,  gentleman,  to  the  making  and  continuing  of  a   new  footpath 
through  their  lands  as  proposed,  and  in  consideration  of'the  old  footpath 
being  vested  in  them. 


20th  May.      Notice  that  an  order  for  the  turning  and  diverting  of  the  foot-    84 
way  leading  from  Colmworth  to  Wilden  will  be  lodged  with  the  Clerk 
of  the    Peace    at    (Quarter    Sessions,  and  that  the  said  order  will  be 
contirmed  and  enroUoil,  unless  an  appeal  be  entered  agai^ist  the  same. 

Plan  of  the  last  mentioned  new  footway.  85 

30th  November.  Order  by  two  Justices  "for  the  stopping  up  of  a  certain  86 
pulilic  footway  lying  partly  within  the  parish  of  Clophill  and  partly 
within  the  township  of  Silsoe,  in  the  parish  of  Flitton-cum-Silsoe,  and 
leading  south-eastwardly  out  of  the  turnpike  road  which  leads  from  the 
town  of  ISedford  to  the  town  of  lAiton,  at  a  certain  place  in  the  said 
parish  of  Clophill  called  the  Warren  Plantation,  and  proceeding  south- 
wardly through  certain  enclosed  lands  of  Anabel,  Countess  De  Grey, 
called  the  Warren  Plantation  and  the  WarrenWood, until  the  said  footway 


164 

again  enters  the  same  turnpike  road  at  or  near  a  certain  close  in  the 
township  of  Silsoe,  called  Great  Cold  Willows  ;  the  said  footway  being 
of  the  length  of  534  yards  or  thereabouts,  that  is  to  say,  of  the  length 
of  about  424  yards  in  the  said  parish  of  Clophill,  and  of  the  length  of 
110  yards  in  the  said  township  of  Silsoe.  And  it  is  further  ordered 
that  the  land  and  soil  of  so  much  of  the  said  footway  as  lies  in  the 
said  parish  of  Clophill,  be  sold  by  the  surveyors  of  the  highways  of  the 
said  parish  to  the  Countess  de  Grey,  if  she  be  willing,  and  if  not,  to 
some  other  person  or  persons  for  the  full  value  thereof,  and  that  the 
money  arising  thereby,  shall  be  paid  to  the  said  surveyors,  and  be 
applied  towards  the  general  repairs  of  the  highways  and  bridleways  of 
the  said  parish  of  Clophill,  and  the  same  with  reference  to  the  land 
and  soil  of  so  much  of  the  said  footway  as  lies  in  the  said  township  of 
Silsoe. 

87  2nd  December.  Notice  that  the  foregoing  order  has  been  lodged  with  the 
clerk  of  the  peace  to  be  confirmed  and  enrolled  unless  an  appeal  be 
entered  against  the  same. 


88    Plan  showing  the  proposed  alterations  in  a  footway  in  Silsoe  and  Clophill. 


89  13th  December.  Order  by  two  justices  for  the  stopping  up  of  a  certain 
public  highway  witliin  the  parish  of  Meppershall  which  leads 
westwardly  out  of  another  public  highway,  being  the  turnpike  road 
leading  from  Bedford  to  the  town  of  Hitchin  in  the  county  of  Hertford, 
at  or  near  a  certain  place  in  the  said  parish  of  Meppershall,  called 
Smarts  Lane  End,  unto  a  certain  place  in  the  said  parish,  called  Upper 
Close  Stile,  at  the  north-west  corner  of  a  certain  close  of  Richard 
Barry,  in  the  said  parish  called  the  Upper  Close,  and  containing  in 
length  about  2002  yards  ;  the  said  first  mentioned  highway  passing 
between  the  land  of  William  Lucas  and  Joseph  Lucas,  the  land  of 
Sir  George  Osborne,  Baronet,  and  the  land  of  Edward  Williamson, 
clerk,  William  Green,  William  Long,  John  Godfrey,  and  others 
(named)  trustees  of  the  poor  for  the  township  of  Shefford,  the  land  of 
the  Countess  de  Grey,  and  the  land  of  the  Governors  of  Christ  Church 
Hospital,  London,  severally  and  respectively,  on  or  towards  the  north 
side  thereof,  and  the  land  of  Thomas  Barber,  the  land  ot  the  said  trustees, 
the  land  of  the  said  Sir  George  Osborne,  the  land  of  the  said  William 
and  Joseph  Lucas,  the  land  of  George  Arnold,  and  the  land  of  the  said 
Richard  Barry  respectively,  on  or  towards  the  south  side  thereof. 
And  it  is  further  ordered  that  the  land  and  soil  thereof  be  sold  by  the 
surveyors  of  the  highways  of  Meppershall  to  the  respective  persons 
whose  lands  adjoin  thereto,  if  they  l)e  willing,  if  not,  to  some  other 
person  or  persons,  to  the  full  value  thereof,  the  money  so  arising  to  be 
applied  towards  the  general  repair  of  the  highways,  etc.,  of  the  said 
parish  of  Meppershall.  Reserving  to  the  first  mentioned  owners  of 
land,  and  the  trustees  of  the  poor  of  Sheft'ord,  the  said  Countess  De 
Grey,  and  the  said  Governors  of  Christ  Church  Hospital,  and  the  said 
Thomas  Barber,  George  Arnold  and  Richard  liarry  respectively,  and 
the  several  and  respective  uwners  of  land  adjoining  the  said  highway, 


165 

a  free  passage  for  persons,  horses,  cattle  and  carriages  through  the  land 
and  soil  of  the  said  highway  directed  to  be  stopped  up,  to  and  from 
the  laud  to  them  respectively  belonging,  according  to  their  ancient 
usage  thereof,  as  per  plan,  see  No.  91. 

14th  December.     Notice  that  the  foregoing  order  has  been  lodged  with  the    90 
clerk  of  the  peace  to  be  confirmed  and  enrolled  unless  an  appeal  be 
entered  against  the  same. 

Plan  of  the  highway  proposed  to  be  stopped  up  at  Meppershall.  91 

rjth  August.  Information  of  James  Ford,  of  Luton,  victualler,  stating  220 
that  on  the  11th  instant  at  5  o'clock  in  the  afternoon,  a  person  calling 
himself  John  Nunn  came  to  deponent's  house  with  William  Hull  who 
called  for  a  pint  of  beer  :  and  John  Nunn  said  "  here  is  a  £50  note, 
give  me  change  for  it."  Deponent  did  not  think  it  was  a  good  one, 
but  wished  to  enquire  of  some  one  who  did  know,  and  deponent's  wife 
took  it  to  Mr.  Walters,  where  it  was  proved  to  be  a  note  for  50  pence 
(see  also  Nos.  47  and  386). 

The  note  for  60  pence,  resembling  a  Bank  of  England  note  for  £50,  with    223 
the  word  fifty  in  white  on  a  black  ground. 

10th   January.     Certificate  tliat  a   certain    }Kirt   of   a   common    highway    267 
leading  from  the  town  of  Potton  towards  the  village  of  Wrestlingworth, 
being    in   the   [)arish   of  Cockayne    Hatley,    and   containing   in    length 
1144  yards  or  thereabouts,  and  in   breadth   about   30  feet,  has  been 
repaired. 

24th  April.  Certificate  that  i)art  of  a  certain  coninK.in  and  ancient  king's  268 
highway  leading  from  the  village  of  Warden  to  the  town  of  Uiggleswadc, 
situate  in  the  hamlet  of  Hill  in  the  said  parish  of  Warden,  lying 
between  Dolittlemill  Bridge  in  the  said  parish,  and  the  turnpike  road 
leading  from  Girtford  Bridge  to  Clifton,  being  of  the  length  of 
5  furlongs  and  113  yards  or  thereabouts,  and  of  the  breadth  of  about 
8  yards  and  1  foot,  has  been  repaired. 

17lh  duly.  Certificate  that  a  part  of  a  certain  common  and  ancient  king's  269 
highway  leading  from  the  parish  of  Sutton  to  the  parish  of  Ey worth, 
situate  in  the  parish  of  Wiestlingworth,  lying  between  the  boundary  of 
the  parish  of  Sutton  and  a  bridge  called  the  White  Bridge,  adjoining 
the  parish  of  Eyworth,  and  of  the  length  of  2  furlongs  and  8  yards, 
and  of  the  breadth  of  42  feet  or  thereabouts,  has  been  repaired. 

17lh    July.     Certificate    that    a    part    of   a   common  and  ancient  king's    270 
highway  leading  from  the  town  of  Potton  towards  and  unto  the  parish 
of  Blunham,  situate  in  the  parish  of  Sandy,  and  containing  in  length 
770  yards  or  thereabouts,   and   in   breadth   about   30   feet,    has   been 
repaired. 


166 

271  17th    July.     Certificate    that  a  certain    part    of  a  common  and  ancient 

king's  hio;h\vay  leading  from  the  town  of  Luton  tovvards  and  unto  the 
town  of  Hitchin,  in  the  county  of  Hertford,  situate  in  the  handet  of 
Stopsley,  and  containing  in  length  3000  yards,  and  in  breadth  20  feet, 
has  been  repaired. 

272  17th  July.     Certificate  that  a  certain  part  of  a  king's  common  highway 

in  the  township  of  Luton,  called  the  Cockernol  Road,  has  been 
repaired. 

273  4th  October.     Certificate  that  a  certain  public  carriage  road  and  highway 

branching  out  of  the  turnpike  road  leading  from  Biggleswade  towards 
St.  Ives,  nearly  opposite  the  vicarage  house  in  Potion,  and  proceeding 
in  an  eastwardly  direction  until  it  enters  the  parish  of  Cockayne 
Hatley,  has  been  repaired. 

274  16th  October.     Certificate  that  a  certain  part  of  a  common  and  ancient 

king's  highway,  commonly  called  the  Dean  and  Shelton  Road,  situate 
in  the  parish  of  Dean,  and  containing  in  length  1200  feet,  and  in 
breadth  30  feet,  has  been  repaired. 

275  16th  October.     Certificate  that  a  certain  common  public  bridge  commonly 

called  Crantield  Bridge,  over  a  certain  common  brook,  situate  in  the 
parish  of  Westoning,  in  the  King's  common  highway  there,  and 
leading  from  the  market  town  of  Ampthill  to  the  market  town  of 
Toddington,  has  been  repaired. 

276  16th    October.       Certificate    that    a    certain    part    of   a   common    and 

ancient  king's  highway  leading  from  the  village  of  Dunton  to  the 
parish  of  Wrestlingworth,  situate  in  the  said  parish,  beginning  at  the 
boundary  of  the  parish  of  Eyworth  and  leading  from  thence  to  a  hand 
])ost  in  the  village  of  Wrestlingworth,  of  the  length  of  3  furlongs  and 
113  yards  or  thereabouts,  and  about  the  breadth  of  40  feet,  and  from 
the   said   hand    post   to   the   new    farm    house    in    the    occupation    of 

Wiles,  of  the  length  of  4  furlongs  and  66  yards  or  thereabouts, 

and  of  the  breadth  of  about  25  feet,  has  been  repaired. 


282    16th  October.      Certificate  of  Thomas    Warner,  gaoler,   in    pursuance   of 
the  statute  in  this  case  made  and  provided  respecting  Bedford  Gaol. 


283  25th  December.  Certified  Return  of  the  2nd  Bedfordshire  Local 
Militia,  consisting  of  1  lieutenant-colonel-commandant  (the  Right 
Honourable  Lord  St.  John),  2  n:ajors,  8  captains,  1  lieutenant, 
1  ensign,  1  adjutant,  1  surgeon,  1  paymaster,  1  quarter  master, 
1  Serjeant  major,  10  Serjeants,  18  corporals,  4  drummers  including 
drum-major  and  613  rank  ami  file  ;  wanting  to  complete,  21.  Names 
of  ofl&cers  jiiven. 


107 

25th  December.  Certified  Return  of  the  Ist  Bedfordshire  Local  284 
Militia,  consisting  of  1  lieutonant-colonel-coniniandant  (the  Marquis  of 
Tavistock),  1  lieutenant-colonel,  1  major,  8  captains,  10  lieutenants, 
1  captain  and  adjutant,  1  surgeon,  1  paymaster  and  quarter  master, 
1  Serjeant  major,  16  Serjeants,  10  corporals,  17  drummers,  and  633 
rank  and  file.     Names  of  officers  given. 

1st   February.     Certified     Return    of    the    Bedfordshire    Begiment   of    285 
Militia,  consisting  of  1  colonel,  1  lieutenant-colonel,  1  major,  4  captains, 

6  lieutenants,    including    jiaymaster,    assistant    surgeon    and    quarter 
master,  4  ensigns,  1   adjutant,    1    surgeon,    11    Serjeants,    11   coi-porals, 

7  drummers    and    165    rank    and    file;    wanting    to    complete,    152. 
Names  of  ofificers  given. 

Michaelmas  Sessions.     Oath  roll.  286 

Epiphany  Sessions.     Account  for  £111   Os.  Od.  for  building  a  new  arch    307 
to  a  bridge  in  the  parish  of   Westoning,    called   Cranfield   Bridge,    by 
order  of  Sessions. 

6th  May.     Account  for  £A9  r2s.  9fd.  for  certain  repairs,   &c.,  at  the    310 
county  hall  and  gaol. 

5th  August.     Estimate  of  £352  19s.  Od.   for  a  road  in   the  parish   of    348 
Everton,  leading  from  the  town  of  Everton  to  the  parish  of  Tempsford. 

Michaelmas  Sessions.     Account  for  £4  7s.  6d.  for  a  survey  of  Hollington    356 
Bridge,  in  the  parish  of  Maulden,  with  a  view  of  ascertaining  whether, 
as   originally   built,    it    was   a   briilge  sufficient   for   the  purposes   for 
which  it  was  designed,  and  also  its  present  state  of  delapidation,  and 
reporting  on  the  same. 

11th  December.  Circular  from  the  Post  Master  General  to  the  419 
"  Lieutenant "  for  the  County  of  Bedford,  calling  attention  to  the 
interruption  of  the  mails  by  falls  of  snow,  and  urging  the  importance 
of  maintaining  communication  between  the  metropolis  and  various 
parts  of  the  kingdom,  with  all  possible  exactness,  also  requesting  the 
magistrates  to  direct  the  proper  officers  of  the  respective  parishes  of 
the  county  of  Bedford  to  pay  attention  to  the  clearing  of  the  roaifs  in 
the  event  of  a  fall  of  snow. 

Extract  from  the  will  of  Arthur  Wichelse,  of  Amptliill  (dated  14th  420 
October,  A.D.,  1687),  who  gave  £700  to  the  churchwardens  and 
overseers  of  the  poor  of  Ampthill,  Maulden,  :Millbrook  and  Ridgmont, 
to  put  out  poor  children  within  tlie  respective  towns  to  some  hont-st 
trades  or  employments  ;  with  directions  to  trustees  to  purchase  lands 
or  tenements  with  the  said  sum,  and  the  yearly  value  of  the  same  to 
be  paid  to  the  churchwardens  and  overseers  of  each  of  the  said  four 
pai'ishes,  and  an  account  of  the  same  to  be  rendered  to  the  said  trustees 
once  yearly. 


1G8 

CALENDAR. 

1817. 

17  25th  October.  Warrant  to  apprehend  Moses  Ash  well  and  Joseph  Ball, 
labourers,  of  Sandy,  for  huntinfj  and  ensnaring  hares  in  the  enclosed 
grounds  of  the  Honourable  Samuel  Henley  Ongley,  accused  being 
armed  with  bludgeons  (see  also  No.  433). 

r>5  P^piphany  Sessions.  Gaol  calendar.  Samuel  Ho])kins,  committed  for 
having  stolen  several  hunk  notes  from  the  house  of  William  King,  of 
Eversholt.  To  be  transported  for  7  years.  Edward  Albone,  committed 
for  indecent  behaviour.  To  be  imprisoned  for  a  month,  and  publicly 
whipped  in  the  market  place  at  Bedford  (see  also  No.  59). 

57  Midsummer  Sessions.  Gaol  calendar.  John  Peter  Osenbrook,  committed 
for  stealing  a  linen  sheet.     To  be  transported  for  7  years. 

64  15th  January.  Order  at  Quarter  Sessions  that  John  Parrott,  formerly  a 
pauper,  of  Chicheley,  be  discharged  from  his  apprenticeship  to 
William  Osborn,  grocer  and  tallow  chandler,  of  Woburn. 

67  15th  January.  Order  at  Quarter  Sessions  fixing  what  sums  shall  be  paid 
for  the  hire  of  carriages  employed  in  the  conveyance  of  troops,  in 
addition  to  the  customary  rates  of  Is.,  9d.  and  6d.  per  mile  respectively. 

73  IGth  July.  Order  at  Quarter  Sessions  appointing  Francis  Green,  Esquire, 
of  Bedford,  and  Thomas  Cave  of  the  sanie  place,  clerk,  to  be,  together 
with  a  third  person  to  be  chosen  by  them,  arbitrators  or  referees,  for 
enquiring  into  and  ascertaining  from  the  London  Gazette  the  average 
price  of  a  Winchester  bushel  of  wheat  within  the  county  of  Bedford 
for  the  space  of  21  years  now  last  past. 

75  15th  October.  Order  at  Quarter  Sessions  made  upon  a  report  of  the 
average  price  of  a  Winchester  bushel  of  wheat,  that  the  yearly  titlie 
rent  or  sum  of  £182  set  forth  in  the  award  35  Geo.  TIL,  and  made 
payable  to  the  vicar  of  Henlow  and  his  successors,  shall  be  increased 
in  proportion,  and  that  the  sum  of  £329  Os.  8^d.  is  the  amount  to 
which  the  said  yearly  rent  sliall  be  increased  (see  also  application  from 
the  vicar  of  Henlow  and  the  Rev.  Thomas  Gregory,  Nos.  458  and 
459). 

82  17th  January.  Order  by  two  Justices  that  a  certain  part  of  a  public 
footway  within  the  parish  of  Ilarrold,  iuid  lying  between  Harrold  and 
the  village  of  Carllon,  in  the  hundred  of  Willey,  for  the  length  of 
about  198  yaids,  be  diveitcd  and  turned  through  the  land  of  Thomas 
Alston,  Esquire,  fur  the  length  of  about  286  yards  and  of  the  breadth 
of  about  6  feet. 


ir,9 

17th  January.     Consent  by  Thomas  Alstun,  Esquire,  of  Harrokl,  to  the    83 
above  diversion. 

Plan  of  the  foregoing  proposed  new  footway  to  Carlton.  84 

7th  March.  Order  by  two  justices  for  the  stopping  up,  diverting  and  85 
turning  of  a  certain  part  of  a  liighway  or  highways,  upon  or  adjoining 
to  a  certain  farm  called  Steppingley  Warren  Farm  within  the  parishes 
of  Flitwick  and  Steppingley,  and  also  a  certain  footway,  in,  over  and 
upon  the  said  farm  within  the  said  parishes,  that  is  to  say,  the  highway 
leading  from  Tingrith  and  Flitwick  at  Clack  End,  and  extending  in  a 
north-west  direction  along  the  hollow  to  the  south-east  end  or  corner 
of  a  close  called  Dry  Close,  for  the  length  of  about  462  yards,  and 
from  a  bend  in  the  hedge  in  another  part  of  the  said  highway  on  the 
east  side  of  a  close  called  Long  Close,  and  extending  northward  and 
westward  round  the  north-east  corner  of  the  said  close  to  the  south- 
west corner  of  Steppingley  Warren  Farm  belonging  to  Joseph  Sharpies, 
Esquire,  for  the  length  of  about  176  yards.  And  another  part  of  the 
same  highway  between  the  said  homestead  and  the  gate  in  the  Water 
Lane,  for  the  length  of  about  167  yards,  and  that  part  of  the 
highway  leading  from  the  north-east  corner  of  Long  Close,  and 
extending  in  a  south-east  direction  to  a  gate  into  the  highway  leading 
from  Eversholt  to  Steppingley,  near  a  wood  l)elonging  to  John  Parker, 
Esquire,  for  the  length  of  about  400  yards  ;  and  also  that  part  of  the 
highway  from  the  south-east  end  or  corner  of  Dry  Close,  in  a  north- 
ward direction  to  a  wood  belonging  to  the  Duke  of  Bedford,  and 
northward  by  the  side  of  the  wood  to  a  gate  into  the  said  highway 
leading  from  Eversholt  to  Steppingley,  for  the  length  of  about  550 
yards ;  and  also  the  footway  leading  from  Clack  End,  and  extending 
in  a  northward  direction  towards  Steppingley  for  the  length  of  about 
884  yards ;  reserving  to  the  Duke  of  Beilford,  over  the  lands  of  the 
said  Joseph  Sharpies,  a  free  passage  for  persons,  horses  and  carriages 
from  the  north  corner  of  the  plantation  called  Flitwick  Plantation,  in 
a  novth-v\est  direction  into  the  road  leading  from  Eversholt  to 
Ste])piiiL;l(.y  ;  also  ouc  other  carriage  and  cattle  way  from  a  lane  situate 
at  the  south-east  extremity  of  the  lands  of  the  said  Duke  of  Bedford  at 
Clack  end,  in  the  occupation  of  John  Goodman,  and  continuing 
eastward  into  the  road  leading  from  Eversholt  to  Flitwick  ;  also  one 
bridleway  from  the  lands  in  the  occupation  of  the  said  John  Goodman, 
from  the  present  bridle  gate  near  the  south  corner  of  Dry  Close,  and 
contiTiuing  eastward  along  the  south  end  of  that  close  into  the  said 
road  leading  to  Flitwick  and  crossing  the  said  road,  and  continuing  in 
the  same  direction  up  the  valley  to  a  britUe  gate  entering  into  the  said 
iJantation  (see  also  No.  272), 

6th  March.     Consent  by  Josej))!  Sharpies,  estjuire,  of  Leighton  Bussard,    86 
to  the   making  of  the   proposed    now    liighway   through    his   lands,  in 
consideration    of    the    old    highway    or    highways    being   stopped    up, 
diverted  ami  turned,  and  vested  in  him  (see  also  87). 

Plan  showing  the  foregoing  proposed  new  highway.  S8 


170 

89  24th  November.     Order  by  two  justices  for  the  diverting  and  turning  of 

a  certain  part  of  a  public  footway  within  the  parisli  of  Luton,  leading 
from  Caddington  Woodside,  and  from  Market  Street  and  other  places, 
to  the  said  town  of  Luton,  and  commencing  at  the  carriage  gate  at  the 
bottom  of  the  lawn  of  Samuel  Crawley,  Esq.,  and  opening  into  the 
road  or  highway  from  Luton  to  Market  Street,  opposite  a  Close  called 
Great  Field,  and  leading  from  thence  in  a  straight  direction  through 
the  said  lawn  by  the  north-west  corner  of  the  garden  wall  into  and 
across  a  certain  close  of  the  said  Samuel  Crawley,  in  the  parish  of 
Luton,  called  Whipler's  Field,  to  the  north-east  corner  of  the  said 
close,  and  which  said  public  footway,  so  far  as  is  intended  to  be  diverted, 
contains  in  length  about  1041  yanls.  And  it  is  further  ordered  that 
as  soon  as  the  new  footway  .shall  be  completed,  and  the  same  certified 
that  then  the  said  part  of  the  former  footway  shall  be  stopped  up,  and 
the  ground  and  soil  thereof  vested  in  the  said  Samuel  Crawley  in 
exchange  for  the  new  footway. 

90  15th  August.     Order  by  two  justices  for  the  diverting  and  turning  of  a 

certain  part  of  a  public  footway  within  the  parishes  of  Luton  and 
Caddington,  and.  leading  from  the  town  of  Luton  to  Caddington 
Woodside  and  to  Market  Street  and  other  places,  and  passing  through 
two  closes  of  James  AValler  in  the  parish  of  Luton,  and  from  thence 
into  and  through  certain  closes,  lands,  and  grounds  of  Samuel  Crawley, 
Esquire,  in  the  said  parish  of  Luton  called  Newland's  Field,  and  the 
lawn,  and  passing  on  the  south-east  side  of  the  mansion  house  of  the 
said  Samuel  Crawley,  called  Stockwood,  and  from  thence  into  and 
across  a  certain  close  of  Joseph  Howell,  Es^quire,  called  Great  Field, 
in  the  parish  of  Caddington,  and  from  thence  into  and  along  the 
north  side  of  a  close  of  the  said  Joseph  Howell,  in  the  same  parish 
called  Woodside  Field,  and  along  the  west  side  of  another  close  of 
the  said  Joseph  Howell,  called  the  Wick,  into  the  lane  leading  from 
Caddington  Woodside  towards  Luton,  which  part  of  the  said  footway 
contains  in  length  abi)ut  2002  yards.  And  it  is  further  ordered  that 
as  soon  as  the  new  footway  shall  be  completed,  and  the  same  certihed, 
that  then  the  said  part  of  the  said  footway  shall  be  sto])ped  up,  and 
the  ground  and  soil  thereof  vested  in  the  said  Samuel  Crawley  and 
Joseph  Howell,  respectively,  as  far  as  their  lands  respectively  extend, 
in  exchange  for  the  said  new  footway. 

91  15th  August.     Order  by  two  justices  that  a  certain  public  footway  within 

the  ])arish  of  Caddington,  leading  across  ami  through  a  certain  close  of 
Joseph  Howell,  Esquire,  called  Great  Field,  commencing  at  the  south 
corner  of  the  said  close,  and  jiassing  through  the  same  close  to  a  gate 
at  the  bottom  thereof,  on  the  west  side  of  the  said  close,  and  openin"' 
into  the  road  leading  from  Luton  to  Market  Street,  and  being  of  the 
length  of  about  3G0  yards,  be  stopped  up. 

92  24th  Xovcndier.     Consent  by  Samuel  Crawley,  Esquii'c,  of  Stockwood,  to 

the  making  and  continuing  of  the  foiegoing  proposed  new  footway 
tlirough  his  lands  and  grounds,  in  consideration  of  the  old  footway 
being  exchanged  and  vested  in  him. 


in 

Notices  that  the  three  foregoing  orders  have  been  lodged  with  the  Clerk    93 — 95 
of  the  peace. 

Plan  of  the  foregoing  proposed  new  footpath   from   Luton   to   Caddington    96 
Woodside,  Market  Street  and  other  places. 

9tli  April.      Notice  of  Appeal  by  James  Monk  to  the  churchwardens  and    97 
overseers  of  the  parish  of  Totteridiue,  against  certain  assessments  for 
the  relief  of  the  poor  of  that  parish. 

10th  July.     Certificate  that  a  certain  new  highway,  described  in  an  order    272 
for  the  stopping  up,  diveiting  and  turning  of  a  highway,  and  highways 
and  footways  uiion  or  adjoining  Steppingley  Warren  Farm,  within  the 
parishes  of  Plitwick  and   Steppingley,  has  been  completed  and  put  into 
good  condition  aiid  repair. 

16th  July.     Certificate  that  a  certain  part  of  a  common  king's  highway    273 
leading  from  Upper  Gravenhurst  to  a  place  called   Ion  in  the  parish  of 
Lower  Gravenhurst,  commonly  called  the  Ion  Road,  and  situate  in  the 
palish  of  Upper  Gravenhurst,  and  containing  in  length    1380   yards, 
and  in  breadth  20  feet,  has  been  repaired. 

16th  July.     Certificate  that  a  certain  part   of  a  highway   leading  from    274 
Cockayne  Hatley  towards  the  village  of  Sandy,  situate  in  the  parish  of 
Potton,  and  continuing  in  length  about   1342  yards,    and   in   breadth 
about  30  feet,  has  been  repaired. 

16th  July.     Certificate  that  part  of  a  highway  leading  from  the  village  of    275 
Shelton    towards   and    unto   the  maiket   town    of  Kimbolton,   in    the 
county  of  Huntingdon,  and    called   the   Kimbolton   and    Dean    Road, 
situate  in  the  parish  of  Shelton,  and  containing  in  length    670   yards, 
and  in  breadth  30  feet,  has  been  repaired. 


1 1th  August.  Certificate  that  a  certain  part  of  a  highway  leading  from  276 
the  parish  of  Wiestlingworth  to  the  parish  of  Potton,  situate  in  Potton, 
and  lying  between  the  boundary  of  the  parish  of  Wrestlingworth  and 
the  parish  of  Cockayne  Hatley  and  the  brick  (damps  in  the  furlong 
called  Short  Herdon  Furlong  in  the  old  field  in  the  parish  of  Potton, 
anil  containing  in  length  about  6  furlongs,  77  yards,  and  in  breadth 
about  23  feet,  has  been  repaired. 

11th   August.     Certificate    that  a  certain    part    of  a    common    highway    277 
leading    from   the    town   of    Potton    towards  and    unto   the    village   of 
Ey worth,  situate  in  the  |)arish  of   Wrestliiigworti),   and   containing  in 
length  1161)  yards  or  thereabouts,   and   in   breadth  about  40  feet,   has 
been  repaired. 


172 

278  15th  October.  Certificate  that  a  certain  part  of  an  ancient  hi^'hway 
leailinp  from  the  town  of  Rilsoe,  in  the  parish  of  Flitton,  towards  and 
unto  the  parish  of  Streatley,  commonly  called  Barton  Hill  Road, 
situate  in  the  parish  of  Barton-in-the-Clay,  and  containing  in  length 
about  3000  yards,  and  in  breadth  about  20  feet,  has  been  repaired. 

2oO  15th  October.  Certificate  by  Thomas  Warner,  gaoler,  respecting  the  gaol 
of  Bedford,  and  certifying  that  certain  rules  have  been  complied   with. 

281 — 282  27th  January.  Two  Certificates  by  Theed  Pearse,  clerk  of  the  peace 
for  the  county  of  Bedford,  that  no  militia  returns  have  been  received 
by  him  for  the  year  ending  Decendjer  31st,  and  that  the  omission  has 
been  certified  to  the  Justices  of  the  Peace. 


283  25th  December.  A  Certified  Return  of  the  Bedfordshire  Regiment  of 
Militia,  consisting  of  1  colonel,  1  lieutenant-cohmel,  1  major,  4  captains 
(1  brevet),  6  lieutenants  including  paymaster  and  quarter  master, 
3  ensigns,  1  adjutant,  1  surgeon,  1  assistant-surgeon,  2  Serjeants, 
2  corporals,  7  drummers,  ami  317  privates  (Establishment  317). 


284  11th  April.  Certificate  by  John  Hodgson,  preacher,  that  a  certain  room 
in  a  dwelling  house  in  Standbi'idge  is  intended  to  be  used  as  a  place  of 
leligious  worship  by  an  assembly  of  protestants,  and  requesting  the 
registration  of  the  same  accoiding  to  an  act  52  Geo.  III. 


285    12th  April.     Certificate  as  above,  respecting  a  room  in  a  dwelling  house 
in  Leishton  Buzzard. 


287  Certificates  by  certain  churchwardens,  overseers  and  others,  named,  on 
behalf  of  Richard  Simp?on,  junior,  of  Silsoe,  against  whom  a  charge  of 
a  serious  nature  has  bet;ii  brought  by  Mary  Bosvvorth  and  (/harlotte 
Harris,  of  Clophill,  and  certifying  that  the  charge  alledged  has  been 
most  grossly  misrepresented,  and  testifying  to  the  good  character  of  the 
said  Richard  Simpson. 


26th  December.     Certificate  by  the  Reverend  Edward  Tanqueray,  clerk, 

justice  of  the  peace,  that  on  the  26th  Decendjer,  he  visited  the 
workhouse  of  the  [larish  of  Sundon,  and  examined  into  the  con<lition 
of  the  poor  people  therein,  anil  the  general  state  of  atlairs,  and  found 
the  workhouse  in  want  of  repairs,  and  the  poor  therein  in  a  wretched 
and  filthy  condition  ;  and  further  certifies  that  it  is  necessary  for  the 
repaii'S  to  take  j)laco  immediately,  and  that  a  well  which  is  filled  up 
with  filth  and  dirt  sliotdd  be  cleansed,  and  that  a  fence  round  the 
garden  should  be  repaired.  Also  that  it  is  necessary  forthwith  to  provide 
for  the  use  of  the  poor  in  the  said  workhouse,  8  be<lsteads,  8  beds, 
16  blankets,  2  pairs  of  sheets  to  each  bed,  and  8  rugs  ov  coverlids. 


1  (-0 

15tli  April.  Report  on  Langfor.l  P.ridge  \>y  Jolni  :\rilliiigtnn.  Lanoford  295 
iWidge,  near  Biggleswade,  is  an  ancient  structure,  c(.nsisting  of  two 
gothic  arches,  supported  upon  a  centre  pier  4  feet  6  iuclies  wi<ie,  which 
blocks  up  a  great  part  of  the  river  Ivel,  over  which  it  is  built;  and 
Avhich  at  the  bridge  is  reduced  to  18  feet  in  width.  The  river  is 
subject  to  considerable  floods,  and  on  account  of  the  road  to  Biggleswade 
being  very  low,  it  is  frequently  under  water,  as  well  as  the  surrounding 
meadows,  and  the  arches  rise  so  small  a  distance  from  the  water's 
surface  as  to  be  filled  in  flood  time;  in  consequence  of  which,  about 
one-fourth  in  length  of  the  centre  pier  has  fallen  down,  and  with  it 
about  the  same  quantity  of  the  bridge,  which  is  reduced  to  about 
9  feet  in  width,  and  is  in  a  dangerous  state  as  a  road  for  the  public, 
particularly  as  both  the  parapet  walls  are  com])letely  down.  It  is  at 
present  repaired  in  a  temporary  manner,  by  laying  trees  over  it  which 
are  covered  with  gravel,  and  rough  side  rails  have  also  been  fixed  up. 
From  the  low  situation  of  the  road  it  will  be  impossible  to  introduce  a 
single  arch  of  such  dimensions  as  not  to  be  choked  up  in  flood  time, 
without  producing  a  disagreeable  ascent  and  descent  in  the  road^ 
-which  would  require  a  very  considerable  quantity  of  gravel  to  raise  it 
on  either  side  to  form  an  easy  ascent.  I  therefore  recommend  that  the 
two  side  walls  should  be  rebuilt  in  brickwork  in  a  perpendicular  form 
at  18  feet  asunder,  and  that  a  wooden  bridge  should  be  constructed 
consisting  of  five  trussed  bearers  covered  with  3  inch  oak  plaidc  and 
gravel.  That  the  parapets  be  formed  of  oak  railing  being  the  trussing 
of  the  two  exterior  bearers  ;  and  if  substantially  done  in  this  manner 
it  will  be  completed  iuv  £180  4s.  Od.,  on  a  supposition  of  the  road 
being  12  feet  wide.  To  complete  it  in  brick woik  with  an  elliptic  arch 
18  feet  span,  will  cost  £164,  exclusive  of  raising  the  road,  which 
cannot  be  rated  at  less  than  £50  more,  and  if  this  is  not  done,  it  will 
be  again  suliject  to  be  affected  by  the  rising  of  the  water. 


296 


lltb   October.      Report   by   Francis   Green,   Esquire,   and   Thomas   Cave, 

clerk,  of  Bedford,  arbitrators  and  leferees,  together  vvitli  Edmond 
Williamson,  of  Campton,  clerk,  a  person  chosen  and  appointed  by 
them,  for  ascertaining  the  price  of  a  Winchestta-  bushel  of  good 
marketable  wheat,  stating  that  they  have  ascertainetl  from  the  London 
Gazette  the  average  piice,  within  the  county  of  Bedford  for  the  space 
of  21  years  las't  past,  to  be  9s.  lOkl.  per  bushel. 


Account  of  John  Millington,  engineer,  for  £46  5s.   3d.  for  surveying  and    335 
reportii  g,  &c.,  on  the  condition  of  the  county  bridges  at  Barton-in-the- 
Clay  and   Hollingford,   in   the   parish   of   Maulden,"  from    17th    Mav— 
12th  October.  ^ 


June.     Account  of  William  BeniU   &  Son  for  £172   12s.   Od.   for  takin^^    350 
away  the  roofs  of  the  two  courts  of  the  County   Hall,   repairiii<T  and 
slating  the  .same  with  lead  gutter,  and  the  repairs  and  alterations  tc^he 
parapet  walls  and  chnnneys,  the  whole  complete  according  to  estimate 
(bee  also  descriptive  particulars  of  above,  No.  483  with  plan  annexed  ) 


174 

381  15th  October.     Petition  of  eight  persons  (named)  to  the  magistrates  of  the 

county  of  Bedfunl,  showing  that  a  requisition  signed  hy  upwards  of 
80  respectahle  gentlemen  and  tradesmen  of  the  town  of  Bedford  having 
been  made  to  the  mayor  for  the  purpose  of  convening  a  general  meeting 
of  the  iidiabitants,  to  take  into  consideration  the  propriety  of  addressing 
the  directors  of  the  House  of  Industry  on  the  necessity  of  changing 
the  system  now  carried  on  in  the  management  of  that  establishment,  and 
the  mayor  begging  to  ilecline  interference  in  the  matter,  the  petitioners, 
deputed  by  the  parishes  of  St  Paid,  St.  Peter,  St.  John  and  St.  Cuthbert, 
request  the  use  of  the  County  Hall  for  a  meeting. 

382  8th  September.      Petition  of  Jolm  Hopkins,  late  of  Biggleswade,  labourer, 

to  the  Court  of  Insolvent  Debtors,  declaring  that  he  is  willing  to  submit 
to  be  fully  examined  touching  the  justice  of  his  conduct  to  his  creditors 
and  praying  to  be  discharged  as  to  all  process  upon  which  he  is  now 
in  custody,  and  to  have  future  liberty  of  his  person  against  the 
demands  for  which  he  is  so  detained,  and  also  against  the  demands  of 
all  persons  named  or  specified  as  creditors. 


386  Memorial  of  the  inhabitants  of  the  county  of  Bedford  (except  the 
inhabitants  respectively  of  the  parish  of  Langford)  stating  that  they  do 
not  apprehend  that  the  King  ought  to  impeach  them  with  regard  to  the 
repair  of  a  bridge  in  the  said  parish  of  Langford,  because  the  said 
inhabitants  of  that  parish,  from  time  immemorial,  before  the  time 
mentioned  in  a  certain  indictment  respecting  the  same,  have  ever  and 
of  right  ought  to  re[iair  the  said  bridge;  and  they  pray  that  the 
inhabitants  of  the  county  of  Bedford,  with  the  exception  of  the  said 
inhabitants  of  Langfonl,  may  be  discharged  as  to  the  said  bridge. 


387  1st  January.  Presentment  that  a  certain  common  public  bridge,  over  a 
stream  of  water,  being  a  branch  of  and  running  into  the  river  Ivel,  called 
Langford  Bridge,  situate  in  the  parish  of  Lan.i^ford,  in  the  common 
highway  there,  leading  from  the  market  town  of  Biggleswade  towards 
and  unto  the  market  town  of  Hitchin,  in  the  county  of  Hertford,  was 
anel  still  is  in  great  decay,  broken  and  ruinous,  thus  causing  great 
danger  to  passengers  (horse  and  foot),  and  that  the  inhabitants  of  the 
county  of  Bedford  ought  to  repair  and  amend  the  said  bridge,  when 
and  as  often  as  it  shall  be  necessary. 


419  16th  August.  Indictment  of  William  Suiith,  of  P>iddenham,  labourer,  for 
uttering  a  counterfeit  coin,  made  to  represent  a  shilling,  and  for  having 
ii:  his  possession  at  the  lime  of  uttering  the  same,  one  other  counterfeit 
coin  for  the  same  purpose. 


444  15th  January.  Declaration  by  Justinian  Alston,  Esq.,  that,  being  the 
owner  of  certain  messuages,  lands,  iScv..,  within  the  parishes  of  Cdell 
and  Pavenham,  he  is  therefoie  qualified  to  act  as  a  justice  of  the 
peace. 


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16th  April.     Declarations  as  above  hy  James  Reed,  clerk,  of  the  rectory    445-447 
of  the  }.aMsh  of  Lversholt,  William  Henry  Whitbrea.i,  Esq.,  of  Southill 
and  AVilham  Pierce  xXethersole,  of  the  rectory  of  Clophill,  respectively! 

27th  December.  Claremont.  Letter  from  Sir  Robert  Gardiner  to  the  449 
High  Sherifl  of  liedford  (Samuel  Crawley,  Esq.)  "I  have  this  day 
had  the  honour  of  presenting  to  the  Prince  Leopold,  the  address  of  the 
nobihty,  gentry,  clergy  and  freeholders  of  the  county  of  Bedfor.l  on  the 
recent  deplored  events  at  Claremont.  The  Prince  Leopold  receives 
this  address  with  sincere  satisfaction.  However  deep  and  overwhelmin<r 
his  sorrows  must  ever  remain,  he  still  feels  most  sensibly  the  affection 
and  interest  with  which  all  have  turned  to  share  and  miti-ate  his 
griefs,  and  he  receives  with  most  attached  and  consoling  confi.lence  this 
further  proof  of  the  general  and  unbounded  feeling  in  the  country's  lo'^s 
and  in  his  own  affliction."  ^  ' 

29th  December  Whitehall  Letter  from  Lord  Sidmonth  to  the  High  451 
Shenfi  of  Bedford,  "  I  have  had  the  honour  to  lay  before  H  R  H  the 
Innce  Regent,  the  very  dutiful  and  loyal  address  of  the  nobility 
gentry,  clergy  and  freeholders  of  the  county  of  Bedford,  expressim' 
tlieir  affectionate  condolence  on  the  ever  to  be  lamented  death  of 
H.R.H^  the  Princess  Charlotte,  and  1  am  to  acquaint  you  that  His 
ixoyal  Highness  received  the  same  in  the  most  gracious  manner." 

14th  January  Statement  of  Jonathan  .Nunn,  of  Market  Street,  to  the  462 
magistrates  of  the  county  of  Bedford,  shewing  the  unfortunate  condition 
to  which  he  has  been  reduced  in  consequence  of  the  number  of  paupers 
(nearly  500)  whom  he  has  been  obliged  to  convey  towards  their 
respecLive  destination^  within  the  last  quarter,  and  sulicitin-  their 
assistance,  without  which  he  must  inevitably  be  ruined.  ° 

27th    November.      Notice    of    aj.plication    by    R<,bcrt    Porter    Beachcroft,    473 
Lector  o     J.lunham,  to  the  justices  of  the  peace,  to  have  two  persons 
appoin  ed,    to    be    together    with   a    third    person    appointed    by   them 
arbitrators  for  enquirin-  into  and  ascertaining  the  average  price  of  a 
Winchester  bushel  of  wheat.  ^     im.eoia 

30th  December.     Reproi)osal  for  widening  Barford  Brid<re      Letter  f.nn,     i-i 
Thomas  Elger  to  John  Day,  Esq  ,  ''  Twill  engage  to  innionftlTaW    "' 
works  ,n   the  most  substantial   manner,  using  the  very  best  materials 
free  from  sap,    or  the  sum  of  £300.      The  money  to  be  paid  as  follows  •- 
VV  hen  the  works  have  been  completed  12  months  £100,  and  12  months 
^ftej^the  hi.t  j,ayment  £100,  and  12  months  after  the  second  payment 


CALENDAR. 

i8i8. 


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75  14th  January.  Statement  of  the  Kev.  Edward  Tanqueray,  Justice  of  the 
Peace,  that  he  has  visited  tlie  workhouse,  kept  for  the  inaintenauce  of 
the  poor  of  the  parish  of  Sundon,  aiul  found  it  in  want  of  repair  and 
the  poor  therein  in  a  filthy  and  wretched  condition  ;  he  also  states 
that  it  is  necessary  to  cleanse  the  well  which  is  filled  up  with  tilth  and 
dirt,  to  repair  the  fence  round  the  garden,  and  to  provide  new  beds 
and  bedding. 

83  1st  April.  Order  at  Quarter  Sessions  by  Thomas  Lilburne,  William  Wells 
(^ardner,  and  Miller  Golding,  tliat  they  have  ascertained  from  the 
Lonil'ui  Gazette  the  average  price  of  a  Winchester  bushel  of  good 
marketal)le  wheat  for  the  space  of  15  yeais  last  past,  and  that  such 
price  amounts  to  10^^.  l-|ii.  per  bushel,  and  that  such  average  price  is 
more  than  the  average  price  set  forth  in  the  award  made  by  the 
commissioners  to  the  value  of  3d.  and  upwards.  It  is  therefore 
ordered  that  the  yearly  rent  of  £306  19s.  4d.  made  payable  to  the 
rector  of  Blunham  and  his  successors  shall  be  increased  to  £5G7  16s.  5d. 
(see  also  Nos.  76  and  394). 

85  15th  July.  Order  at  Quaiter  Sessions  by  Thomas  Lilburne,  Benjamin 
Welstead  and  Miller  Golding  that  they  have  ascertained  the  price  of  a 
Winchester  luishel  of  wheat  for  10  years  last  past  to  be  10s.  llfd., 
and  that  such  average  price  is  more  than  the  average  price  set  forth  by 
the  award  made  by  the  commissioners  to  the  value  of  3d.  and  upwards. 
It  is  therefore  ordered  that  the  yearly  tithe  rent  of  £103  payable  to 
the  rector  of  Shelton  be  increased  to  £206  13s.  6|d.  (see  also  Nos. 
395,  591  and  595). 

87  15th  July.  Ordered  that  the  tythe  rent  of  £130  payable  to  the  rector  of 
Risely  be  increased  to  £259   6s.    Id.  (see  also  No.  396). 

89  15th  July.      Order  at  Quarter  Sessions  that  the  inhabitants  of  the  hamlet 

of  Standl)ridge  do  pa}'  a  tine  (jf  £150  to  John  Long  for  not  repaiiing  a 
certain  ])art  of  a  highway  leading  from  the  village  of  Kgginton  to  the 
village  of  Totternhoe,  situate  in  the  hamlet  of  Standbridge,  commencing 
from  the  luunlet  of  Eggiiiton,  and  continuing  to  the  end  of  a  lane 
leading  to  the  church  or  chapel  of  Egginton,  containing  in  length 
660  yards,  and  in  breailth  30  feet  (see  also  No.  569). 

90  15th  July.     Order  at  Quarter  Sessions  that  the  inhabitants  of  the  hatnlet 

of  Egginton,  iu  the  bnvnship  of  Leighton  Buzzard,  do  pay  a  fine  of 
£130  for  iK)t  repairing  a  certain  part  of  a  highway  leading  out  of  the 
village  of  Hockliffe  to  the  village  of  Totternhoe,  situate  in  the  hamlet 
of  Egginton,  commencing  near  a  house  in  the  occupation  of  Hannah 
Moore  in  tlie  handet  of  Egginton,  and  continuing  as  far  as  the  hamlet 
of  Standbridge,  containing  in  length  324  yards  or  thereabouts,  and  in 
breadth  30  feet  or  thereabouts  (see  also  No.  568). 

120  31st  August.  Statement  by  , lames  Webster  and  William  Pierce 
Nethersolc,  Justices  of  the  Peace,  at  a  special  sessions  held  at 
Chicksands  Priory,  in  the  hundreil  of  Clifton,  that  having  upon  view 
found  that  a  certain  part  of  a  bridleway  and  footway  within  the  extra 


177 

parochial  place  of  Chicksands  in  the  said  hundred,  lying  between  the 
town  of  Shefford  and  the  village  of  Clopliill,  and  passing  out  of  the 
public  bridleway  leading  from  the  town  of  Bedford  to  the  village  of 
Campton,  at  the  eastern  corner  of  a  certain  close  of  Sir  John  Osborne, 
Baronet,  called  Miller's  Close,  into  and  along  the  north-eastern  side  of 
the  same  close,  and  from  thence  across  certain  other  closes  of  the  said 
Sir  John  Osborne,  called  Great  End  Field,  Conduit  Field,  and  Grub 
Close,  to  the  eastern  corner  of  a  certain  other  close  of  the  said 
Sir  John  Osborne,  called  the  meadows,  for  the  length  of  1562  yards  or 
thereabouts,  and  particularly  described  in  the  plan  hereunto  annexed 
as  lying  between  the  letters  A  and  B.  And  also  a  certain  other 
f(jotway,  within  the  extra  parochial  place  of  Chicksands  aforesaid,  and 
the  parish  of  Clophill,  leading  out  of  the  last  described  bridleway  to 
the  highway  leading  ifrom  the  village  of  Campton  to  the  village  of 
Clophill,  and  passing  along  the  eastern  side  of  Grub  Close  to  the  south 
corner  of  Chicksands  Wood,  and  from  thence  in  a  north-west  direction 
into  and  along  the  northern  sides  of  certain  closes  of  the  said 
Sir  John  Osborne,  called  Hither  Close  and  Further  Wood  Piece,  and 
across  certain  closes  of  William  Montague,  Esq.,  called  Wood  Piece 
and  Spring  Close,  for  the  length  of  1485  yards  or  thereabouts,  and 
also  particularly  described  in  the  plan  hereunto  annexed  as  lying 
between  the  letters  F,  G  and  H.  And  also  a  certain  other  footway 
within  the  extra  parochial  place  of  Chicksands,  lying  between  the  said 
town  of  Shettbrd  and  the  said  village  of  Clophill,  and  passing  from 
and  out  of  the  public  bridleway  leadirig  from  the  town  of  Shetibrd  to 
the  village  of  Haynes  at  the  entrance  gate  to  Chicksands,  across 
certain  closes  of  the  said  Sir  John  Osborne,  called  the  Home  Close, 
Broom  Hill  and  Great  Endfield  to  the  said  first  described  bridleway  at 
the  western  corner  of  the  said  close  called  Great  Endfield,  for  the 
length  of  1177  yards,  and  also  particularly  described  in  the  plan 
hereunto  annexed,  as  lying  between  the  letters  C  and  D,  may  severally 
be  diverted  and  turned  so  as  to  make  the  same  nearer  and  more 
commodious  to  the  public.  And  having  viewed  a  certain  course 
proposed  for  the  new  bridleway  and  footway  in  lieu  thereof  in  a 
straight  line  through  the  lands  and  grounds  of  the  said  Sir  John  Osborne, 
in  the  extra  parochial  place  of  Chicksands  aforesaid,  (that  is  to  say) 
The  said  close  called  Broom  Hill,  certain  other  closes  called  Horse 
Close  and  Little  Endfield,  and  the  said  closes  called  Great  Endfield, 
Conduit  Field  and  Grub  Close,  of  the  length  of  1793  yards  and  of  the 
breadth  of  8  feet,  particularly  described  in  the  plan  hereunto  annexed, 
as  lying  between  the  letters  E  and  B,  and  having  received  evidence  of 
the  consent  of  the  said  Sir  Johri  Osborne  to  the  said  new  bridleway 
being  made  through  his  lands  lastly  hereinbefore  described  by  writing 
under  his  hand  and  seal,  they  do  hereby  order  that  the  said  bridleway 
and  footways  be  diverted  and  turned  through  the  lands  last  aforesaid, 
and  they  do  further  order  that  when  such  new  bridleway  and  footway 
shall  be  conflicted  and  put  into  good  repair,  and  so  certified  by  two 
justices  of  the  peace,  then  the  old  bridleway  and  footway  hereinbefore 
described  shall  be  stopped  up  and  inclosed,  and  the  ground  and  soil 
thereof  vested  in  the  said  Sir  John  Osborne  and  William  Montague  as 
far  as  their  lands  respectively  extend. 

31st  August.     Consent  of  Sir  John  Osborne  that  the  bridleway  mentioned    121 
in  the  foregoing  statement  shall  be  diverted. 


178 

122  31st  August.     Notice  tliat  the  above  mentioned  bridleway   and   footways 

are  to  be  diverted  ;  this  notice  to  be  fixed  at  the  sides  of  the  said 
bridleway  and  footways,  and  also  on  the  door  of  the  parish  church  for 
three  successive  Sundays. 

123  Plan  relating  to  the  foregoing  order. 

124  31st  August.    Statement  by  Robert  Ilihbert,  Esquire,  and  the  Revd.  James 

Hoi'seman,  two  justices  of  the  peace  at  a  special  sessions  held  at  Luton 
in  the  hundred  of  Flitt,  that  having  upon  view  found  that  a  certain 
part  of  a  public  footway,  within  the  parish  of  Luton,  leading  from 
Park  Street,  in  the  town  of  Luton  near  the  Pound  there,  into  a  certain 
lane  or  field-way,  adjoining  a  certain  common  field  in  Luton  called 
Bailey  Field,  and  commencing  at  the  west  corner  of  the  yard  or 
burying  ground  belonging  to  the  Baptist  meeting  house  in  Luton 
aforesaid,  and  proceeding  in  a  diagonal  direction  across  a  certain  close 
of  pasture  ground  of  Susannah  Collett,  William  Burr  and  Solomon  Burr, 
in  the  parish  of  Luton,  called  Meeting  House  Close,  to  the  west  corner 
of  the  said  close  where  it  enters  the  said  lane  or  field-way,  which  said 
part  of  the  said  ancient  footway  through  the  lands  aforesaid  contains 
in  length  67  yards  or  thereabouts,  and  in  breadth  4  feet,  and  is 
particularly  described  in  the  plan  hereunto  annexed,  may  be  diverted 
and  turned  to  make  the  same  more  commodious  to  the  public,  and 
having  viewed  a  certain  course  proposed  for  the  new  footway  in  lieu 
thereof,  commencing  at  the  west  corner  of  the  said  yard  or  burying 
ground,  and  proceeding  nearly  in  a  straight  line  with  the  other  part  of 
the  said  footway  leading  from  Park  Street,  and  across  the  said  close 
called  Meeting  House  Close  in  a  straight  direction  until  it  enters  the 
said  lane  or  field-way  hereinbefore  mentioned,  at  ihe  distance  of 
28  yards  from  the  Avest  corner  of  the  said  close.  And  which  said  new 
footway  contains  in  length  61  yards  or  thereabouts,  and  in  breadth 
6  feet,  and  is  particularly  described  in  the  ])lan  hereunto  annexed  ; 
and  having  received  evidence  of  the  consent  of  the  said  Susannah 
Collett,  William  Burr  and  Solomon  Burr  to  the  said  new  footway 
being  made  through  the  said  close  by  writing  under  their  hands  anil 
seals.  They  Jo  hereby  order  that  the  said  footway  shall  be  diverted  and 
turned  through  the  lands  aforesaid,  and  they  do  further  order  that  as 
soon  as  the  said  new  footway  shall  be  completed  and  put  into  good 
condition  and  repair,  and  shall  have  been  duly  certified  by  two  justices 
of  the  peace,  then  the  said  i)art  of  the  said  former  footway  shall  be 
from  henceforth  stopped  up,  and  the  ground  and  soil  thereof  vested  in 
the  said  Susannah  Collett,  William  Burr  and  Solomon  Burr  in 
exchange  for  the  new  footway  (see  also  No.  376). 

125  31st  August.     Consent  of  Susannah  Collett,  William  Ihur  and  Solomon 

Burr  that  the  footway  above  described  shall  be  diverted  through  their 
lands. 

126  31st  August.     Notice  that  the  order  for  diverting   the   above  mentioned 

footway  shall  })e  lodged  with  tiie  clerk  of  the  peace  to  be  confrrmed 
and  enrolled,  and  that  the  ordi'r  be  affixed  io  Luton  ehuich  door  for 
three  consecutive  Sundays. 


179 

Plan  relating  to  the  above  mentioned  footway.  127 

10th  Novemher.  Order  by  two  justices  of  the  peace  that  the  two  several  129 
footways,  both  being  of  the  length  of  407  yards  or  thereabouts,  be 
stopped  up,  as  they  are  unnecessary,  and  the  land  and  soil  to  be  sold 
by  the  surveyors  of  the  highways  of  the  parish  of  Peitenhall,  in  which 
they  are  situated,  to  Peter  Augustus  Lautour,  Esq.,  whose  land  adjoins 
thereto,  for  the  full  value  thereof,  if  not,  to  some  other  person  or 
persons. 

Plan  relating  to  the  above  mentioned  footways.  130 

5th  October.  Certificate  by  two  justices  of  the  peace  that  they  have  372 
viewed  a  certain  part  of  a  public  footway  in  the  parishes  of  Luton  and 
Caddington,  leading  from  the  town  of  Luton  to  Caddington  Woodside, 
and  to  Market  Street  and  other  places,  and  which  by  a  certain  order 
by  them  made  was  diverted  and  turned  in  the  manner  and  direction  in 
the  said  order  mentioned,  and  which  order  hath  been  since  canfirmed, 
which  said  new  footway  is  pai'ticularly  described  in  the  said  order  and 
in  the  ])lan  thereunto  annexed,  and  they  find  that  the  said  footway, 
containing  in  length  1770  yards,  and  in  breadth  4  feet,  is  completed 
and  put  into  good  repair. 

7th  October.  Certificate  that  a  certain  part  of  a  highway  leading  from  373 
the  village  of  Cockayne  Hatley  to  the  village  of  Eyworth.  lying  in  the 
parish  of  Wrestlingworth,  containing  in  length  1562  yards,  and  in 
breadth  30  feet ;  and  also  a  certain  part  of  a  highway  leading  from  the 
villnge  of  Cockayne  Hatley  to  Eyworth,  containing  in  length  770  yards, 
and  in  breadth  30  feet,  have  been  repaired. 

20th  October.  Certificate  that  a  certain  part  of  a  highway  lying  in  the  374 
hamlet  of  P]gginton,  in  the  parish  of  Leighton  Bussard,  commencing  at 
a  house  in  the  occu[)ation  of  Sarah  jNIoore,  in  the  hamlet  of  Egginton, 
and  thence  continuing  as  far  as  the  hamlet  of  Standbridge,  containing 
in  length  324  yards,  and  in  breadth  30  feet,  which  was  presented  by 
the  Honble.  William  Waldegrave  for  being  out  of  repair ;  has  been 
repaired. 

21st  October.  Certificate  that  jiart  of  a  highway  leading  from  the  town  375 
of  Potton  to  the  village  of  Arrington,  in  the  county  of  Cambridge, 
being  in  the  parish  of  Cockayne  Hatky,  containing  in  length  2618  yards, 
and  in  breadth  30  feet ;  and  also  part  of  anotlier  highway  between  the 
same  places,  containing  in  length  638  yards,  and  in  breadth  30  feet, 
have  been  repaired. 

21st  October.     Certificate   by  Thomas  Warner,  gaoler  of  Bedford  gaol,    385 
that    the    within    mentioned    directions    for    the    well    being    of    the 
prisoners  have  been  complied  with. 


180 

387  25th  December.     Certified   Return  of  the  names,  number  and  rank  of 

the  oflficers,  and  tlie  number  of  non-commissioned  officers  and  privates 
of  the  Bedfordshire  Regiment  of  Militia,  consisting  of  1  colonel, 
1  lieutenant-colonel,  1  major,  4  captains,  G  lieutenants,  3  ensigns, 
1  adjutant,  1  surgeon,  11  Serjeants,  11  corporals,  7  drummers,  and 
294  rank  and  file.     Names  of  officers  given. 

388  20th    October.     Report    of   the   justices   that   the  proposed   rate  on  the 

rateable  property  in  the  parish  of  Apsley  Guise  is  a  fair  and 
proportionate  one,  and  that  the  same  has  been  allowed  ;  and  also  that 
the  costs  and  expences  referred  to  them  are  to  be  paid  by  the 
churchwardens  and  overseers  of  the  poor  of  the  said  parish. 

464  14th  July.     Statement   by  John  Long,  surveyor,   that  the  expence  of 

making  the  Stanbridge  Road  is  £130. 

465  11th  July.     Estimate  by  John  Long  that  the  cost  of  making  the  road 

over  Egginton  Green  to  Stanbridge  is  £110. 

473  5th  September.     Account  of  William  Brown  for  17s.  6d.  for  carting  lime 

and  sand  for  Cardington  Bridge. 

474  5th  September.     Account  of  Samuel  Redman  for  £4  9s.   3d.  for  materials 

for  Cardington  Bridge. 

490  19th  September.  Account  of  W.  Benell  &  Son  for  £10  19s.  4d.  for 
bricklayer's  work,  &c.,  to  Cardington  Bridge. 

492  Receipt  for  the  above  account. 

493  Account    of    William    Brown    for    lis.    6d.    for   carting    materials    for 

Cardington  Bridge. 

496    Account  of  John  Robinson  for  13s.  for  Great  Barford  Bridge. 

498  7th  December.  Number  of  prisoners  in  Bedford  gaol  and  House  of 
Correction. 

502  29th  March.  Petition  of  Jonathan  Nunn,  pass-master  of  Market  Street, 
for  an  advance  of  salary  by  reason  of  tlie  increased  number  of  vagrants 
travelling  on  that  road. 


505  15th  July.  Representation  by  the  high  constables  of  the  county  of 
Bedford,  that  complaints  have  been  made  by  several  of  the  parishes, 
of  the  sums  charged  by  them  as  a  remuneration  for  their  services, 
stating    the    methods    which    they    have    adopted,    and     which    they 


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consider  unequal,  and  suggesting  that  it  would  be  more  equitable  if 
the  court  were  to  allow  a  salary  to  be  paid  out  of  the  county  rates  to 
each  of  the  high-constables  in  proportion  to  the  number  of  places  in 
each  hundred,  by  which  means  each  parish  and  place  wouhl  be  made 
to  contribute  in  equal  proportions  according  to  the  sums  charged  upon 
them  respectively  in  the  county  rates. 

In   connection   with  the  above  representation,  the  clerk  of  the  peace  has    507 
applied  fur  information  of  what  is  done  in  the  adjoining  counties  with 
the  following  result  : — 

Huntingdonshire  : — Each  high  constable  is  paid  a  salary  of 
£40  for  the  delivery  of  precepts  and  for  attending  the  Assizes  for 
10  days;  for  other  services,  bills  are  made  out  and  paid  like  other 
bills. 

Cambridgeshire  : — No  regular  allowance — some  receive  only 
10s.,  others  £3   10s. 

Hertfordshire  : — A  yearly  salary  of  £6  besides  what  they 
receive  from  the  parish  officers. 

Buckinghamshire  : — A  yearly  salary  of  £30  for  collecting 
rates  and  attending  sessions  and  assizes  ;  they  also  receive  from  the 
clerk  of  petty  sessions  a  fee  of  Is.  for  the  service  of  notice  and 
warrants  to  each  petty  constable. 

Northamptonshire  :- — No  fixed  salary,  but  receive  from  each 
petty  constable  Is.  for  every  assize  and  session  bill,  and  Is.  for 
each  land  tax  assessment,  and  Is.  for  every  warrant  and  precept. 

14th  January.  Presentment  that  there  is  a  highway  leading  from  the  568 
village  of  Standbridge  to  the  village  of  Eaton  Bray,  a  certain  part 
whereof  situated  in  the  parish  of  Totternhoe,  commencing  from  the 
boundary  of  the  hamlet  of  Standbridge  in  the  township  of  Leighton 
Bussard,  and  continuing  as  far  as  the  parish  of  Eaton  Bray,  containing 
in  length  1562  yards,  and  in  breadth  30  fVet  or  thereabouts,  is  in  a 
state  of  decay,  and  that  the  inhabitants  of  the  parish  of  Totternhoe 
ought  to  repair  the  same. 

1st  April.     A  similar  presentment  of  the  same  highway  in  the  parish    571 
of  Eaton  Bray,  which  ouglit  to  be  repaired  by  the  inhabitants  of  that 
parish. 

22nd   June.     Requisition    by    three    justices    of    the   peace    to   James    586 
Ca.stleman,   keeper  of  the  Shire   Hail,  to  prevent  the  said   hall   lieing 
used  as  a  dining  room  during  tlie  coming  election,  and   to  resist  any 
application     for     using    the     hall     for    any    other    purpose    than    the 
legitimate  one. 


Same  date.      Protest  by  cortain  justices  against  the  said  hall  being  used  as    587 
a  dinner  room  for  Colonel  Osborne  and  his  friends. 


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593  Eastern  Session.  Brief  for  counsel  to  move  for  the  appointment  of 
referees  to  enquire  as  to  the  average  price  of  corn  in  the  county  for  the 
h\st  10  years,  in  onler  that  the  corn  rent  of  the  vicar  of  Kisley  may 
be  raised. 

It  is  stated  tliat  the  enclosure  act  ftn*  L'lsely  was  passed  in  33  Geo.  III., 
and  it  was  enacted  that  the  vicar's  allotment  for  tithes  should  Ije 
allotted  to  Lord  St.  John,  in  lieu  whereof  the  yearly  sum  of  £130 
should  be  paid  to  the  vicar  by  half  yearly  payments. 

The  commissioners  were  to  ascertain  the  average  price  of  a  Winchester 
bushel  of  wheat  for  21  years  preceding  the  commencement  of  the  act, 
and  set  forth  such  price,  and  what  quantity  of  wheat  at  that  price 
£130  would  purchase. 

The  vicar  or  Lord  St.  John  were  to  apply  to  have  3  persons  appointed  to 
enquire  into  the  average  price  of  wheat  for  th<3  last  10  years,  and  in 
case  it  should  appear  that  the  average  price  was  more  or  less  than  the 
average  price  set  forth  in  the  award  by  3d.  or  upwards,  the  said  yearly 
rent  of  £130  should  be  increased  or  diminished  in  proportion. 

The  commissioners  awarded  to  Lord  St.  John  an  allotment  containing 
181  acres  2  roods  14  poles,  which,  with  other  lands,  is  charged  with 
the  yearly  sum  of  £130  as  a  corn  rent  to  the  vicar  to  be  paid  at  the 
vicarage. 

The  commissioners  ascertained  that  the  average  price  of  wheat  for  the  last 
21  years  was  5s.  6d.  per  bushel,  at  which  price  the  £130  would 
purchase  472  bushels  2  pecks. 

595  18th  September.  Notice  by  the  Kevd.  Edmond  Williamson,  rector  of  the 
jiarish  of  Campton-cum-Shetford,  that  he  intends  to  apply  for  three 
persons  to  enquire  into  the  average  price  of  wheat,  and  if  such  price  is 
more  or  less  than  the  average  price  by  2d.  or  upwards,  then  the  yearly 
sum  of  £179  14s.  payable  to  the  rector  shall  be  increased  or  diminished. 

597  That  Mr.  Harper,  Mr.  Farmer  and  jNlr.  Green  be  a  committee  to  examine 
the  state  of  Stafford  Bridge,  and  to  enquire  whether  any  [larish  or 
individual  is  bound  to  repair  the  same  or  any  part  thereof. 

599  The  Attorney  General's  opinion  with  reference  to  coroners'  travelling 
expenses  is,  that  they  should  be  paid  9d.  a  mile  for  every  mile  they 
travel,  both  out  and  home  again. 

613  31st  March.      Bedford.      Letter  from   G.    Dumelow   to  The   Ilonble.  Wm. 

Waldegrave,  stating  that  his  object  in  desiring  to  visit  prisoners  in 
gaol  and  to  give  them  tracts,  is  not  to  infringe  on  the  privileges  of  the 
chaplain,  but  only  to  render  himself  useful. 

614  12th  May.      Letter  from  Theed   Pearse,   stating  that  a  general  session  of 

thn  peace  is  to  lie  hehl  on  the  18th  instant,  for  the  following  objects, 
"  To  consider  and  determine   upon  the  proposal  of   Mr.   Allen,   the 


18:1 

contractor  for  Liiilding  Tempsforrl  Bridge,  to  refer  the  action  commenced 
by  him  against  tlie  magistrates,  and  all  matters  in  dispute  to  the 
arbitration  of  a  barrister,  to  be  invested  with  the  most  ample  powers  ; 
a  measure  recommended  by  Mr.  Serjeant  Blossett,  the  counsel  for  the 
Justices. 

To  consider  the  report  of  Mr.  Savage  on  the  state  of  the  present  timber 
liridge  at  Tempsford,  and  the  representations  of  the  trustees  of  the 
iK)rth  road  with  respect  to  that  bridge,  and  the  state  of  Biggleswade 
Bridge. 

And  also  to  take  into  consideration  certain  complaints  which  have  been 
made  against  one  of  the  chief  constables,  of  collecting  within  the  last 
two  years  higher  county  rates  than  have  been  ordered  by  the  court, 
and  the  j)ropriety  of  requiring  security  from  the  chief  constables,  as 
authorized  by  the  Act  55  George  III.  c.  51." 

14th  July.  Hammersmith.  Letter  from  John  Millington  to  the  magistrates,  ^15 
"  I  have  inspected  Biggleswade  Bridge  according  to  the  directions  I 
received  from  the  clerk  of  the  peace.  I  found  the  delapidations  there 
of  so  trifling  a  nature,  that  I  think  the  bench  of  magistrates  ought  not 
to  have  been  troubled  on  the  occasion.  Mr,  Hedding,  the  surveyor  of 
the  Biggleswa<le  roads,  met  me  on  the  spot  to  explain  the  nature  of 
the  complnint  which  is  that  the  foundation  of  one  of  the  wing  walls 
of  the  bridge  is  underwiined  in  a  slight  degree  by  the  wash  or  splash 
of  water,  occasioned  by  cattle  and  carriages  going  into  the  river  at  a 
watering  jilace  which  is  made  by  the  bridge  side,  and  which  has  never 
been  protected  by  throwing  earth  up  against  it.  This  would  have 
been  prevented,  had  a  single  length  of  elm  or  oak  planks  been  spiked 
to  some  short  stakes  to  break  the  force  of  the  water,  or  by  occasionally 
replacing  the  gravel  of  the  wash  road  as  it  v/as  carried  away  ;  but  as  it 
now  stands,  the  wall  must  be  underpinned  with  masonry  for  about 
40  feet,  otherwise  it  is  in  danger  of  falling  before  long,  which  may 
endanger  the  road.  Mr.  Hedding  promised  to  throw  in  a  few  loads  of 
"golt"an(l  road  scrapings,  and  to  bank  them  up  against  the  wall 
which  will  jirotcct  it  and  prevent  further  mischief  for  tlie  present, 
lint  I  by  all  means  recommend  that  the  vi'all  should  be  underpinned, 
and  [jroperly  repaiicd  without  delay,  as  at  ])re.sent  this  lepair  will  not 
cost  more  tlian  £5  or  £G,  but  if  neglected,  may  be  of  more  serious 
consequence. 

By  the  inscription  on  the  bridge,  it  appears  it  was  built  at  the  joint 
expence  of  the  river  commissioners,  the  trustees  of  the  road,  and 
the  county.  As  a  county  bridge  there  can  be  no  obligation  to  make 
or  maintain  the  wash  way  at  the  side,  which  I  suppose  should  be 
maintained  by  the  road  trust,  as  a  part  of  the  road  ;  and  if  it  had  been 
jiroperly  gravelleil  an<l  maintained  by  them  the  jtresent  mischief  would 
not  have  occurred,  therefore  it  appears  to  me  hard  that  the  county 
should  be  at  any  expence  on  tin;  present  occasion  ;  bat  I  presume  the 
act  of  parliament,  if  any,  or  tlie  deed  or  agreement  under  which  this 
bridge  was  built,  jirovidcs  for  the  manner  in  which  it  is  to  be 
maintaiuiMl  and  repaired,  and  I  should  suppose  its  own  tolls  equivalent 
to  this  purpose.  1  shall,  however,  abide  your  directions  as  to  j^jj-oceeding 
with  the  repairs. 


Ig4 

With  respect  to  Hollington  Bridge,  the  delay  which  has  occurred  has  arisen 
from  my  being  unable  to  see  his  Grace  the  Duke  of  Bedford  in 
cf>nscquence  of  his  removal  to  the  continent ;  nor  did  I  feel  that  I  had 
any  authority  to  repair  the  bridge,  having  no  specific  directions  to  that 
effect  until  the  receipt  of  your  order  of  the  19th  May  last.  I 
immediately  afterwards  took  measures  to  have  it  repaired,  and  it  is 
now  compleated,  with  the  exception  only  of  the  timber  fencing. 

My  estimate  for  rebuilding  it  as  delivered  to  you  some  time  ago,  was  XI 64, 
and  I  agreed  with  Mr.  Joseph  Scrivener,  mason,  of  Sharnbrook,  whom 
[  could  confide  in,  as  having  worked  under  me  before,  to  rebuild  all 
that  part  which  can  be  considered  as  a  county  bridge  and  to  reinstate 
the  road  (except  gravelling  il)  at  my  price,  being  £120.  If  the  Duke 
of  Bedford's  weir  is  reinstated  and  repaired  in  the  manner  I  proposed, 
it  will  come  to  the  remainder  of  the  money,  but  as  I  consider  this  as 
not  aj)pertaining  to  the  county,  I  shall  wait  your  directions  respecting 
it,  but  some  rei)airs  must  be  done  to  it,  either  by  the  county  or  the 
Duke  of  Bedford,  otherwise  Hollington  Bridge,  now  perfect,  may  be 
endangered. 

It  would  be  desirable  to  order  the  land  holders  on  either  side  of  the  water 
course  below  the  briilge  to  clean  it  out,  if  there  is  power  to  do  so,  as 
the  water  at  present  is  much  penned  up  by  weeds  and  trees,  and  as 
]Mr.  Scrivener  has  completed  his  work  in  a  good  and  workmanlike 
manner,  I  shall  feel  obliged  by  your  confirming  the  agreement  I  made 
with  him." 


622  31st  August.  Circular  letter  from  Theed  Pearse,  clerk  of  the  peace, 
"  By  an  act  passed  in  the  54th  year  of  His  Majesty,  for  amending  the 
general  highway  act,  it  is  directed  that  the  justices  of  the  district  at 
their  special  sessions  for  the  highways  held  in  the  week  next  after 
Michaelmas,  yearly,  shall  fix  such  rates  as  they  shall  adjudge 
reasonable,  as  a  composition  in  lieu  of  the  teams,  carts,  horses,  oxen, 
or  labour,  which  persons  are  bound  in  the  proportions  now  fixed  by 
law  to  provide  or  perform,  which  rates  the  said  justices  are  thereby 
authorized  and  required  aiuiually  to  make  known  at  such  special 
sessions,  due  regard  being  had  to  the  actual  wag(^s  of  labour,  and  to 
the  actual  rate  of  hiring  teams,  draughts,  ploughs,  carts,  horses,  or 
oxen,  in  the  parish,  place,  or  district,  in  which  such  composition  is 
required." 

"  And  that  all  i)ersons  who  are  liable  under  any  of  tlie  provisions  of  any 
of  the  highway  acts,  to  contribute  to  the  repair  of  the  highways,  by  a 
l)ayn)ent  of  money  in  lieu  of  statute  duty,  shall  contribute  thereto  in 
lieu  of  every  day's  statute  duty,  for  every  twenty  shillings  of  the 
actual  annual  value  of  the  lands  and  hereditaments  which  such  person 
shall  respectively  occupy,  a  sum  equal  to  one-fiftieth  part  of  the  sura 
affixed  by  the  justices  at  the  time  and  in  the  manner  by  the  said  act 
directed,  as  the  composition  for  one  day's  labour  of  a  cart,  wain,  or 
carriage,  furnished  with  three  horses  and  two  able  men,  omitting  any 
fractional  part  of  the  said  sum  which  does  not  amount  to  one 
farthiu"." 


185 

"  The  magistrates  assembled  at  the  last  Quarter  Sessions  of  ti\e  peace, 
Imviiig  taken  the  subject  into  consideration,  were  of  opinion,  the  rates 
for  team  duty,  and  the  composition  hereunder  mentioned  are  reasonable, 
and  for  the  sake  of  uniformity  through  the  county,  they  recommeud 
the  adoption  of  those  rates  to  the  magistrates  in  their  respective 
districts." 

The  rate  or  sum  of  r2s.  6d.  as  a  reasonable  composition  for  a  team  with 
3  horses  and  2  men. 

The  rate  or  sum  of  8s.  4d.  as  a  reasonable  composition  for  a  cart  with 
2  horses. 

The  rate  or  sum  of  4s.  2d.  as  a  reasonable  composition  for  a  cart  with  one 
horse. 

The  composition  in  the  same  proportion  for  each  20.s, 


Memoranda  from  Warwick  as  to  the  Gaol  and  Bridewell.  The  staff  at  623 
the  gaol  consists  of  a  gaoler  and  three  turnkeys  paid  by  the  county. 
A  debtor  who  is  remanded  for  five  years  is  constantly  in  the  yard  with 
the  prisoners  to  report  what  he  sees  going  wrong,  for  which  the  county 
pays  him  7/-  a  week,  his  place  is  taken  at  night  by  a  watchman,  who 
receives  2/6  a  week.  The  boys  are  employed  heading  pins,  under  a 
master,  which  is  considered  the  best  form  of  employment,  and  they 
are  kept  in  excellent  order.  The  women  are  employed  stitching  patten 
ties,  for  which  they  receive  half  their  earnings.  The  gaol  is  very 
secure,  being  built  of  stone  with  separating  walls  of  the  same,  well 
guarded  with  rolling  chevaux-de-frize,  rendering  escape  impossible. 
The  yards  are  paved  with  Yorkshire  ])avement,  which  is  cleaner  than 
gravel. 

The    Bridewell    is    a    complete    woolen  manufactory,  the  whole  process  is 
cai'ried  on  from  the  fleece  to  the  carpet,  &c.     The  prisoners  are  let  by 

the    county     to    a    mechanic    at per    head,    who    teaches    and 

superintends  the  whole  concern,  the  women  are  employed  in  spinning, 
the  mechanics  and  men  of  slight  stature  in  combing,  weaving,  &cr; 
farmers,  servants,  labourers,  and  short  imprisonments  "are  employed  in' 
grinding  wheat,  for  which  purpose  they  have  two  mills,  one  worked 
by  eight  men,  the  other  by  fifteen,  the  hitter  has  only  been  put  up 
about  a  month,  built  by  a  Mr.  Corby,of  Castle  Ashby,  Northamptonshire, 
the  stones  are  3  ft.  6  in.  in  diameter,  on  just  the  same  principle  as  our 
own,  the  dressing  machine  is  also  on  the  same  principle,  but  the 
cylinder  is  much  loiig(;r  and  prevents  a  deal  of  trouble. 

The  boys  are  employed  in  wire  drawing  and  heading  pins  ;  they  sleep  as 
many  as  thirty  in  a  room,  in  berths  divided  on  the  floor"  by  sin<de 
boards  about  10  inches  hiyh.  *  ° 


18a 

CALENDAR. 

1819. 

2*^  Epiphany  Sessions.  Gaol  calendar.  James  Waldeck,  charged  upon  his 
own  confession,  with  having  received  copper  money  to  the  vahie  of  3s. 
on  account  of  his  master,  Christopher  Pryor,  and  with  having 
emhezzled  and  made  away  with  snch  money.  To  be  committed  to 
gaol  for  one  month  and  privately  whipped. 

37  William  Studraan  charged  with  having  received  2  bushels  of  fine  pollard 
valued  at  16s.,  and  2  bushels  of  coarse  pollard  valued  at  5s.,  and  also 
with  having  received  3  strikes  of  coarse  pollard  valued  at  3s.,  which 
had  been  stolen  by  Thomas  Halworth,  the  said  William  Studman 
knowing  the  same  to  have  been  stolen.     To  be  transported  for  14  years. 

41  Midsummer  Sessions.  Gaol  calendar.  William  Parks,  charged  on 
suspicion  of  stealing  1  linen  sheet.  Committed  to  gaol  for  two 
calendar  months,  and  to  be  publicly  whipped  in  the  market  place  at 
Bedford. 

^^  14th  July.  Order  on  the  application  of  the  vicar  of  Dunton  (under  the 
Dunton  enclosure  act  37  Geo.  III.)  appointing  Thomas  Lilburne,  of 
Cardington,  and  Charles  Bloodworth,  of  Kimbolton,  in  the  county  of 
Huntingdon,  to  ascertain  the  average  price  of  a  Winchester  bushel 
of  wheat  in  regard  to  the  payment  of  tithe  rent  payable  by  Earl  Spencer 
to  the  vicar  of  Dunton. 

56  21st  April.  Order  at  Quarter  Sessions  made  upon  the  report  of  Henry 
Humphry  Goodall,  Thomas  Lilburne  and  Eobert  Gresham  as  to  the 
average  price  of  a  Winchester  bushel  of  wheat  for  15  years,  that  the 
yearly  rent  or  sum  of  £179  14s.  Od.  mentioned  and  set  forth  in  an 
award,  and  made  payable  to  the  rector  of  Campton-cum-Sheftbrd  and 
his  successors  at  the  time  and  in  manner  therein  mentioned,  shall  be 
increased  in  proportion  to  the  average  price  of  10s.  4d.  per  bushel,  and 
that  the  sum  of  £322  8s.  lOd.  is  the  exact  amount  of  the  sum  to 
which  the  said  yearly  rent  or  sum  shall  be  so  increased  (see  also  ^0.  50, 
360  and  571). 


83  20th  October.  Order  at  Quarter  Sessions  made  upon  the  application  of 
Charles  Earnett,  of  Stratton  Park,  to  the  justices  of  the  peace,  to 
adjudge  and  assess  tlie  damage  done  to  2  acres  3  roods  and  30  perches 
of  ground,  situate  at  Stratton,  and  belonging  to  the  said  Charles  Earnett, 
by  digging,  gathering  and  carrying  away  therefrom,  materials  for 
repairing  and  amending  the  roads  leading  from  Stevenage,  in  the 
county  of  Hertford  to  Biggleswade,  and  assessing  the  said  damages  at 
£82  10s.  7^d. 


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1st  January.  Notice  of  appeal  by  Thomas  Hart,  of  Keysoe,  tenant  and  101 
occui)ier  of  a  farm  situate  within  the  parishes  of  Keyse  and  Pertenhall, 
to  the  surveyors  of  the  highways  of  Pertenl)all  and  others,  against  an 
order  for  stopping  up  as  unnecessary  a  footway  situate  within  the 
parish  of  Pertenhall,  and  described  in  the  said  order  as  follows,  "  one 
footway  of  the  length  of  407  yards  or  thereabouts,  commencing  at  a 
stile  at  or  near  the  north-west  corner  of  a  field  belonging  to  Peter 
Augustus  Lautour,  Esq.,  called  Great  Bush  Close,  and  passing  in  a 
south-east  and  easterly  direction  over  the  said  field  and  ending  at  a 
stile  near  the  south-east  corner  of  the  same."  The  said  Thomas  Hart 
and  also  his  landlord  (the  Revd.  John  Lettice,  D.D.,  of  Peasemarsh, 
in  the  county  of  Sussex),  and  the  public  are  much  aggrieved  by  the 
proposed  stopping  up  of  the  said  footway  (see  also  No.  74). 


12th  January.  The  King  against  the  inhabitants  of  the  parish  of  340 
Standbridge.  Certificate  that  part  of  an  ancient  highway,  situate  in 
the  hamlet  of  Standbridge  in  the  parish  of  Leighton  Bussard, 
commencing  at  or  from  the  hamlet  of  Egginton  in  the  township  of 
Leighton  Bussard,  and  thence  continuing  to  the  end  of  a  lane  leading 
to  the  church  or  chapel  of  Standbridge,  containing  in  length  about  660 
yards,  and  in  breadth  about  30  feet,  is  in  sufficient  and  permanent 
repair,  and  so  likely  to  continue  from  the  permanency  thereof,  and  the 
materials  that  are  now  ready  to  lay  thereon  wdien  it  shall  be  necessary 
(see  also  No.  572). 


22nd  March.     Certificate  that  a  public  bridge  situate  in  the  parish  of    341 
Maulden,  leading  from  the  parish  of  Ampthill  to  the  parish  of  Flitton, 
has  been  repaired. 


14th  July.  Certificate  that  part  of  an  ancient  highway  leading  from  the  343 
village  of  Everton  towards  the  town  of  Potton,  situate  in  the  parish  of 
Tempsford,  containing  in  lengtli  1386  yards,  and  in  breadth  30  feet; 
and  also  a  part  of  anotlier  ancient  highway  leading  from  the  village  of 
Everton  towards  the  town  of  Potton  and  situate  in  the  parish  of 
Tempsford  aforesaid,  and  containing  in  length  about  308  yards,  and  in 
breadth  30  feet,  have  been  repaired. 


19th  October.  Certificate  that  a  greater  part  of  a  road  leading  from  and  344 
out  of  the  village  of  Standbridge,  towards  and  unto  the  village  of 
Eaton  Bray  (which  said  road  has  been  presented  at  Quarter  Sessions) 
has  been  repaired  ;  and  that  about  one  third  part  of  the  .said  road, 
commencing  from  the  end  of  sucli  repaired  part  towards  Eaton  Bray, 
appears  to  be  in  such  good  condition,  that  the  same  does  not  require 
any  reparation,  and  that  the  whole  of  the  said  road  is  in  such  a  state 
that  passengers  (horse  and  foot)  may  pass  and  repass  with  safety. 

20th  October.     Annual  certificate  by  Thomas  Warner,  gaoler,  respecting    353 
Bedford  gaol. 


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355  24th  July.  Certificate  by  Theed  Pearse,  clerk  of  the  peace,  that  he  has 
received  a  dechiration  by  Stephen  Dodd,  of  Woburii,  printer,  to  the 
eifect  that  he,  Stephen  Dodd,  has  a  printing'  press  and  types,  which  he 
proposes  to  use  for  printing  witliin  the  town  of  Woburn,  and  which 
lie  requires  to  be  entered  for  that  purpose,  in  pursuance  of  an  act 
39  Geo.  III.  for  the  more  effectual  suppression  of  societies  established 
for  seditious  and  treasonable  purposes,  and  for  better  preventing 
treasonable  and  seditious  practices. 

357  25th  December.     A  Certified  Return  of  tlie  Bedfordshire  Regiment  of 

Militia,  consisting  of  1  colonel  (Sir  John  Osborne,  Bart.),  1  lieutenant 
colonel,  1  major,  4  captains,  6  lieutenants,  including  paymaster  and 
quartermaster,  4  ensigns,  1  adjutant,  1  surgeon,  1  assistant  surgeon, 
11  Serjeants,  11  corporals,  7  drummers,  and  202  rank  and  file;  wanting 
to  complete  115. 

358  Certificate  by  7  persons  (named)  being  resident  inhabitants  in  the  parish 

of  ^^''addesdon  in  the  county  of  Buckingham,  that  Samuel  Cowell  (in 
gaol  at  Bedford  on  a  charge  of  having  stolen  a  hurdle)  has  been  in 
the  respective  service  of  the  said  inhabitants,  as  a  servant  or  labourer, 
and  that  tliey  always  found  him  to  be  a  trusty,  honest  and  faithful 
servant,  and  recommend  him  to  the  lenient  and  favorable  consideration 
of  the  court  and  prosecutor, 

359  Oath  Roll. 

361  14th  July.  Report  by  John  Millington  on  Langford  Bridge  and  Stafford 
Bridge,  etc.  "  I  beg  leave  to  report  that  the  only  county  bridge  at 
present  in  progress  is  that  at  Langford,  near  ShefFord.  This  bridge 
was  ordered  to  be  rebuilt  with  an  iron  arch,  and  in  pursuance  of  such 
order,  the  old  bridge  has  been  pulled  down,  and  the  new  abutments, 
wdiich  have  been  erected,  are  in  so  forward  a  state,  that  they  will  be 
ready  to  receive  the  iron  work  which  is  upon  the  spot  in  the  course  of 
two  days,  and  I  have  no  doubt  that  the  bridge  will  be  reopened  to  the 
public  before  the  close  of  the  next  Aveek.  The  pulling  down  of  the 
old  bridge  and  the  masons  work  has  been  executed  liy  Mr.  Joseph 
Scrivener  in  an  attentive  and  workmanlike  manner  ;  and  he  being 
desirous  of  receiving  some  money  on  account.  I  beg  to  certify  that 
he  may  be  paid  the  sum  of  £50  on  account  of  such  work.  I  have 
likewise  ])aid  the  sums  of  £7  5s.  Od.  to  Mr.  Castled ine,  and  of 
£2  18s.  Gd.  to  Mr.  Barber  for  ropes  for  moving  the  iron;  making 
altogether  the  sum  of  £10  3s.  6il.,  whirh,  if  approved,  you  will 
])erhaps  oblige  me  by  ordering  to  be  paid.  1  have  likewise  received  a 
a  letter  from  Richard  Brettingham,  Esq.,  on  behalf  of  Mrs.  Winstanley, 
stating  her  willingness  to  pay  her  proportion  of  the  sum  of  j£61  for 
the  repairs  of  Stafford  Bridge  at  its  present  width.  Such  rej)airs  and 
those  of  the  causeway  were  agreed  to  be  left  until  the  summer.  I  now 
therefore  await  your  directions  as  to  putting  them  in  hand  at  the 
present  time.  The  remuneration  of  MV.  Klines  for  the  troul)le  he  took 
in  coming  to  Bedford  and  revising  his  estimate,  having  been  referred 


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to  myself,  I  he^  to  say  that  after  July  considering  the  matter,  I  think 
15  guineas  will  be  a  liberal  allowance  fur  such  trouble  and  expences, 
this  does  not  however  include  the  making  of  the  estimate,  which  in 
my  judgment  he  docs  not  appear  entitled  to  be  paid  for,  but  should 
you  in  your  lietter  judgment  think  otherwise,  and  that  the  said 
estimate  should  be  paid  for,  then  I  think  the  sum  of  25  guineas  in  the 
whole  will  be  a  fair  and  reasonable  allowance." 


15th  July.  Report  by  John  Millington.  "  I  beg  to  re[)ort  that  I  have  363 
carefully  examined  the  bills  of  Messrs.  Eerrell,  Wing  and  Elger,  this 
day  referred  to  me,  and  that  I  find  the  work  charged  for  by  them  as 
done  at  the  county  gaol,  is  done  in  the  best  manner  and  with  the  best 
materials.  1  have  measured  such  of  the  work  as  was  measurable  and 
find  the  dimensions  correct,  but  cannot  speak  as  to  the  day  work  of 
Mr.  Eerrell  and  Mr.  Elger,  though  the  same  has  been  pointed  out  to 
me  and  appears  quite  correct.  I  do  not  find  any  of  the  work  above 
alluded  to  superfluous  or  unnecessary,  except  in  the  instance  of  the 
coping  to  the  walls  as  charged  in  I^Ii'.  Wing's  bill,  and  for  this,  coping 
of  a  cheaper  kind,  might  have  been  substituted,  although  that  which  is 
adopted  is  the  handsomest." 


19th  October.  Report  ordered  to  be  made  upon  an  appeal  from  certain  364: 
rates  or  assessments  made  for  the  relief  of  the  poor  of  the  parish  of 
Leighton  Bussard,  that  it  appears  upon  examination  of  the  same,  that 
the  rates  or  assessments  are  defective  and  unequal  and  that  they 
cannot  be  amended,  and  it  is  recommended  that  the  same  be  quashed, 
and  that  all  costs,  charges,  and  expences,  be  paid  by  the  churchwardens 
and  overseers  of  the  poor  of  the  townshij)  of  Leighton  Bus.sard,  out  of 
the  monies  to  be  raised  for  the  relief  of  the  said  parish. 


20th  October.  Report  on  the  jirogress  of  the  woi'ks  in  course  of  execution  365 
at  the  new  Penitentiary  or  House  of  Correction,  now  building  for  the 
county  of  J]edford  ;  by  James  Elms,  architect  to  the  said  building,  and 
made  to  the  chairman  and  justices  at  the  Michaelmas  Sessions.  "  I 
have  inspected  the  progiess  of  the  works  now  proceeding  under  my 
superintendence  at  the  new  House  of  Correction  from  time  to  time, 
since  my  last  report  at  the  Midsunnner  Quarter  Sessions,  and  have 
only  to  reiterate  my  opinion  therein  exjjressed  as  to  the  faithful 
manner  in  which  the  contractor  is  executing  his  works.  The  weather 
hitherto  has  been  most  favorable  to  the  duiability  of  the  work.s,  but 
the  clningc  that  has  just  taken  place  makes  me  lament  that  the  stone 
roofs  of  the  cells  aie  not  now  in  their  places,  but  they  arc  daily 
expected.  The  extra  works  that  have  been  ordered  at  various  times 
liave  incieased  the  quantity  of  work  to  be  done,  and  consequently  tlie 
length  of  time  necessary  to  execute  them  in.  But  as  much  in  quality 
and  value  has  been  performed  as  was  engaged  to  be  done  in  this  time, 
by  the  contiactor,  who  is  fully  entitled  to  another  instalment  of  i."5()0, 
according  to  the  tenor  of  his  contract.  I  liope  my  proceedings  will 
meet  the  honour  of  your  worships  apprubatiou." 


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367  20th  October.     Report  by  John  Millington.     "  I  have  the  honour  to  report 

that  all  the  ordeis  that  I  have  received  have  been  fulfilled,  with  the 
exception  of  Stafford  Bridge,  and  this  is  nearly  finished  as  far  as 
regards  the  county  part  of  it,  which,  together  with  the  arches  repairing 
by  His  Grace  the  Duke  of  Bedford  and  by  Mrs.  Winstanley,  will  be 
completed  in  a  few  weeks.  Langford  Bridge  was  finished  and  opened 
to  the  public  on  the  11th  of  September  last,  and  the  work  has  been 
well  executed  by  those  to  whom  it  was  entrusted.  The  total  expence 
of  building  it  in  iron  was  estimated  in  my  report  of  13th  January 
last  at  £250,  and  I  have  since  measured  and  examined  the  whole  of 
the  work,  which  I  find  amounts  to  £254  8s.  8d.  as  per  account 
annexed,  and  which  may  therefore  be  ordered  to  be  paid.  Of  this  sum 
£4  14s.  6d.  is  for  the  repairs  of  a  road  arch  belonging  to  Henlow 
Parish,  which,  although  in  a  bad  state,  was  useful  in  carrying  away 
the  water  while  the  bridge  was  building,  and  the  use  of  it  was  obtained 
upon  condition  that  the  county  should  bear  half  the  expence  of 
repairing  it,  which  has  since  been  done  for  £9  9s.  Od.  1  have 
likewise  measured  the  oak  guard  railing  at  Hollington  Bridge,  as  put 
up  by  Mr.  Saml.  Burrows,  of  Clophill,  and  the  quantity  is  Gl.j  cube 
feet,  which  was  agreed  to  be  done  for  6s.  3d.  jier  foot,  and  the  painting, 
pitching,  putting  down,  etc.,  comes  to  £4  6s.  Od.,  so  that  the  total 
sum  of  £24  9s.  2d.  may  be  ordered  to  be  paid  to  Mr.  Burrows,  as 
well  as  £5  to  Mr.  Wouvermans,  the  surveyor  of  Mauldon,  for  gravel 
and  materials  laid  on  the  arch  after  it  was  finished"  (see  also  No.  361). 

368  Account  referred  to  in  the  above  report. 

370  ]*Iichae]mas  Sessions.  Report  of  the  chaplain  of  the  Gaol  and  House  of 
Collection  (G.  H.  Bowers)  to  the  justices  at  Quarter  Sessions.  "I 
have  great  satisfaction  in  being  able  to  state  to  your  worshipful  bench, 
that  the  regulations  which  you  were  pleased  to  order  relative  to  the 
management  of  the  county  prisons,  have  been  introduced  into  them, 
and  acted  upon  during  the  last  quarter,  and  that  there  is  a  fair  prospect 
of  very  beneficial  consequences  resulting  from  them.  The  actual 
reformation  of  the  offenders  may  be  hoped  for ;  and  from  the  constant 
employment  and  separation  which  is  now  observed,  the  confinement  is, 
we  trust,  rendered  such  as  will  not  only  deter  themselves,  but  the 
companions  to  whom  they  return  from  being  committed  to  what  is 
now  really  a  House  of  Correction,  restraint  and  discipline,  and  where 
there  is  a  promiscuous  association  of  the  prisoners,  little  real  benefit 
can  be  expected  to  arise  from  exhortation  and  advice.  A  system  of 
classification  therefore  has  been  adopted  by  which  the  obstinate  and 
old  offenders  have  been  separated  from  the  better  disposed  ;  but  it  is 
to  be  feared,  from  the  probability  of  an  increased  number  of  prisoners, 
that  the  limits  of  the  prison  will  not  admit  all  the  benefits  of  this 
system  of  classification  during  the  ensuing  winter  season.  A  school 
has  been  established  in  the  chapel  of  the  gaol,  which  I  feel  great 
pleasure  in  oljserving  has  certaiidy  been  productive  of  much  good. 
The  conduct  of  all  who  have  attended  it  has  been  orderly  and  highly 
becoming,  and  the  progi'css  that  has  been  made  in  reading  and 
repeating  lessons  has  exceeded  my  exiiectations.  'J'ho  attendance  at 
school  is  not  compulsory,  but  is  granted  as  au  indulgence  after  the 


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prisoner's  labour  at  the  mill  is  ended,  and  as  a  reward  for  good 
behaviour  in  the  yards  and  day  rooms.  The  greater  part  of  the 
prisoners,  particularly  those  who  are  confined  under  sentences  of  long 
imprisonments,  have  been  found  desirous  to  be  instructed,  whilst 
others  have  objected  on  account  of  age  and  ignorance,  though  I  much 
fear  that  the  true  cause  of  their  refusal  is  a  love  of  idleness.  The 
master  of  the  school,  I  have  the  happiness  to  observe,  is  well  qualified 
for  the  situation  which  he  fills.  Ills  mildness  of  manner  and  steadiness 
and  regularity  of  conduct  deserve  commendation.  It  is  humbly 
submitted  to  your  consideration,  whether  the  morning  only  during  the 
short  days  of  the  winter  season  may  be  thought  sufficient  for  the 
employment  of  the  better  disposed  at  the  mill,  and  whether  to  such 
men  an  indulgence  to  attend  the  school  in  the  evening  may  not  be 
granted.  I  also  beg  leave  to  state  that  the  conduct  of  the  prisoners 
generally,  has  been,  during  the  whole  of  the  last  quarter,  orderly, 
peaceable  and  submissive ;  and  that  their  attendance  at  divine  worship 
has  been  regular  and  becoming." 

Epiphany  Sessions.     Account  for  £18  13s.  4d.  for  repairing  Cardington    384 
Bridge,  by  order  of  the  Honble.  Willm.  Waldegrave. 

9th  January.     Several  accounts  for  repairs  to  Great  Barford  Bridge.  399—403 

January.     Account   for   £146    4s.    Id.    as   above   for   work   extra   from    406 
contract. 

14th  July.     Account  for  £220  3s.   lO^d.  for  mason's  work  and  materials    444 
at  the  county  gaol. 

14th  July.     Account  for  £35  for  removing  certain  convicts  (named)  from    454 
Bedford  to  London,  and  from  thence  on  board  the  hulks  at  Woolwich, 
at  £5  each. 

15th  July.     Account  for  £194  19s.  9d.  for  making  an  additional  length    461 
of  242  yards  to  the  common  sewer  leading  from  the  county  gaol. 

Account    of   John    Millington    for   £125    lOs.    Od.    for    surveying   and    489 
insjiecting  certain  bridges  (named)  from  October  sessions,  1818— same 
sessions,  1819. 

4th  December.     Petition  of  13  prisoners  (named)  in  Bedford  gaol,  praying    506 
that  they  may  be  allowed  more  provisions,  as  their  allowance  is  nol 
sufficient  to  enable  them  to  do  their   work,    also   praying   that   their 
friends  may  be  allowed  to  assist  them,  as  some  of  them  Imve  been  in 
for  a  long  time  and  they  find  themselves  becoming  very  weak. 

Petition     of    the     vicar    (K    B.    Frere),    churchwardens,    overseers    and    507 
inhabitants  of  the  parish  of  Biggleswade  on  behalf  of  William  Stud  man, 
a  i)risoner,  under  sentence  of  transportation  for  14  years,  and  praying 
that,  in  consideration  of  his  age,  infirmity,  and  former  good  charactei" 
a  mitigation  of  his  sentence  may  be  granted. 


192 

511  10th  March.  Presentment  that  upon  inspection  of  the  connty  gaol,  it 
a]ipears  to  he  -well  regulated,  but  that  high  sub-division  walls  are 
necessary  in  the  ditlei"ent  court  yanls  of  the  prison,  more  effectually  to 
separate  the  respective  classes  of  prisoners,  and  in  particular  the 
males  and  females;  and  that  some  better  accommodation  is  desirable 
for  the  witnesses  while  waiting  to  be  called  and  examined  on  the 
various  indictments. 

516  1st  April.  Presentment  that  there  is  an  ancient  highway  leading  from 
the  village  of  Thurh'igh  towards  the  market  town  of  St.  Neots,  in  the 
county  of  Huntingdon,  and  that  a  certain  part  of  the  said  highway, 
called  the  Keysoe  Row  or  Little  Staughton  Road  situate  in  the  parish 
of  Keysoe,  and  beginning  at  a  certain  tenement  in  the  several 
occupations  of  John  Wells  and  Edward  Shelford,  and  so  continued 
towards  the  market  town  of  8t.  Keots,  for  the  length  of  3430  yards, 
and  of  the  breadth  of  30  feet,  is  very  ruinous,  miiy,  deep,  broken,  and 
in  great  decay,  thus  causing  great  danger  to  the  lives  of  passengers, 
both  horse  and  foot,  and  also  the  loss  of  their  goods. 


CALENDAR. 

1820. 

37  A  calendar  of  the  names  of  the  coroners,  bailiffs,  and  constables  of 
hundreds  within  the  county  of  Bedford. 

42  Easter  Sessions.  Gaol  Calendar.  George  Lewis  and  Michael  Wright, 
convicted  of  uttering  a  forged  note,  remain  under  reprieve  from 
sentence  of  death. 

51  Michaelmas  Sessions.  Qaol  Calendar.  William  Garner,  a  private  of 
the  Bedfordshire  Militia,  committed  by  Sir  John  Osl)orne,  Bart., 
Colonel  in  command.  To  be  imi)risoned  for  six  calendar  mouths, 
under  sentence  of  court  martial. 

59  18th  October.  Order  at  (^).iartpr  Sessions  that  the  yearly  rent  of 
£188  18s.  Od.  mentioned  in  an  award  made  by  virtue  of  the  "Sandy 
enclosure  act "  38  Geo.  IIT.,  and  payable  to  the  rect/or  of  Sandy  an<l 
his  successors,  in  manner  tiierein  set  forth,  shall  be  increased  in 
])roportion  to  the  average  price  of  10s.  3|d.  per  bushel  of  wheat,  and 
that  the  sum  of  £334  4s.  8.^-il.  is  the  exact  amount  to  which  the  said 
yearly  rent  shall  be  so  iiicrea-ed  (see  also  No.  339  and  529). 

66  12th  April.  Order  at  Quarter  Sessions  tliat  th(!  usual  sums  shall  be  paid 
for  the  hire  of  carriages  employed  in  the  conveyance  of  troojis  in 
addition  to  the  custouuiry  rates  of  Is.,  9d.  and  6d.  per  mile. 


19;j 

Easter  Sessions.  Printed  statement  (2  copies)  that  the  court  resolves,  69  and  70 
that,  for  the  sake  of  distinction,  that  part  of  the  gaol  which  is  set 
apart  as  a  House  of  Correction,  shall  be  called  the  old  House  of 
Correction,  and  the  new  building,  which  by  the  report  of  the  visiting 
justices  is  completed  and  furnished  for  the  reception  of  prisoners,  shall 
be  called  the  New  House  of  Correction. 

3rd  February.  Record  of  the  conviction  of  James  Giddings,  of  Eaton  77 
Socum,  carrier  and  guard  to  the  coach  employed  to  carry  the  mails 
from  Glasgow  to  London,  for  having,  at  the  parish  of  Sandy,  bought 
two  hares  contrary  to  the  statute,  which  hares  the  said  James  Giddings 
took  with  him  on  the  mail  coach  on  its  way  to  London.  Adjudged  to 
pay  a  fine  of  £10. 

3rd  February.      Record  of  another  conviction  of  James  Giddings,  as  above,    78 
for  buying  6  hares  and  3  pheasants.     Fined  £45. 

7tli  June.  Order  for  stopping  up  a  public  footway  within  the  parish  of  93 
St.  Paul,  in  the  town  of  Bedford,  leading  in  a  southwardly  direction 
from  the  turnpike  road  at  the  point  where  a  stile  lately  stood  opposite 
to  or  near  the  western  end  of  a  place  called  Parker's  Row  in  the  parish 
of  St.  Peter,  across  and  through  a  certain  close  in  the  parish  of  St.  Paul, 
heretofore  belonging  to  Francis  Green,  Esq.,  but  lately  sold  to  the 
justices  of  the  peace,  and  now  comprising  the  site  of  the  new  House  of 
Correction,  and  appurtenances  thereof,  to  the  stile  on  the  south  side  of 
the  said  close  near  the  eastern  end  of  the  almshouses  there.  The  said 
footway  being  of  the  length  of  about  141  yards  and  of  the  breadth  of 
about  4  feet.  And  the  land  and  soil  thereof  to  be  sold  by  the 
surveyors  of  the  highways  of  Bedford  to  the  justices  of  the  peace,  for 
the  full  value  thereof. 

Plan  of  the  foregoing  footway  proposed  to  be  stopped  up.  95 

11th  January.  Certificate  that  a  public  carriage  road  and  highway  in  the  309 
parish  of  Sharnbrook  (set  out  by  virtue  of  the  Sharnbrook  enclosure 
act,  49  Geo.  IIL),  and  of  the  width  of  30  feet,  branching  out  of  the 
Harrold  Turnpike  Road  at  Moor  Head,  in  a  southward  direction  by 
the  east  side  of  Tenley's  Close,  over  the  Moor  Furlongs  and  Great 
Meadow  to  the  River  Ouze  at  the  ford  nearly  opposite  Felmersham 
church,  and  called  the  Felmersham  Road,  has  been  fully  repaired. 

12th    January.     Certificate    that   Langford    Bridge,    in    the    parish    of    310 
Langford,  has  been  repaired. 

12th  July.     Certificate  that  an  ancient  highway  leading  from  Gamlingay,    311 
in  the  county  uf  Cambridge,  unto  the  town  of  St.  Neots,  in  the  county 
of   Huntingdon,  situate  in  the  parish  of  Everton,  and  containing  in 
length  2882  yards,  and  in  breadth  30  feet,  has  been  repaired. 


194 

312  18th  October.     Certificate  that  an  ancient  highway  situate  in  the  parish 

of  Whipsnade,  beginning  at  the  centre  of  Deadmonsey  Wood,  and 
ending  at  Dagnell'  Gate,  containing  in  length  2000  yards,  has  been 
repaired.  See  presentment  No.  487,  in  which  it  states  that  the 
inhabitants  of  Whipsnade  ought  to  repair  the  said  highway. 

313  18th    October.     Certificate   that  a  bridge  over  the   River  Ouze,   called 

Tempsford  Bridge,  situate  in  the  parishes  of  I'empsford  and  Roxton, 
and  which  has  been  built  by  the  inhabitants  of  the  county  of  Bedford, 
in  place  of  the  old  bridge  of  that  name,  is  now  open  for  horse  and  foot 
passengers. 

314  25th  December.     A  Certified  Return  of  the  Bedfordshire  Regiment  of 

Militia,  consisting  of  1  Colonel  (Sir  John  Osborne,  Bart.),  1  Lieutenant 
Colonel,  1  Major,  4  Captains,  6  Lieutenants,  including  Quarter  Master 
and  Paymaster,  4  Ensigns,  1  Adjutant,  1  Surgeon,  1  Assistant  Surge(ni, 
11  Serjeants,  11  Corporals  and  Drummers,  and  273  Rank  and  File. 
Wanting  to  complete,  44. 

322    18th    October.     A    certified  yearly    Return   by  Thomas  Warner,  gaoler, 
respecting  Bedford  gaol. 

330   Oath  Roll. 

334  Epiphany   Sessions.     Report  of  the  chaplain  of  the  Gaol  and  House  of 

Correction,  stating  the  conduct  of  the  prisoners  has  been  generally 
satisfactory,  but  that  the  crowded  state  of  all  the  day  rooms  has 
rendered  a  proper  classification  very  difficult,  and  expressing  a  hope 
that  the  "diposition"  that  has  been  made  will  not  be  attended  with 
any  serious  consequences. 

335  12th  April.     Report  by  Thomas  Elger,  stating  that  Stafford  Bridge  has 

sustained  considerable  damage  by  the  late  flood,  and  that  the  ice  drawn 
against  it  with  great  violence,  has  forced  out  several  stones  in  most  of 
the  arches.  Eiidorsed,  that  the  bridge  is  ordered  to  be  repaired  under 
the  direction  of  Mr.  Millington. 

336  Easter  Sessions.     Report  of  James  Elmes,  architect  on  the  completion  of  the 

works  of  the  new  House  of  Correction.  "I  have  the  honour  of  reporting 
that  the  sundry  works,  etc.,  in  building  the  new  county  penitentiary  or 
House  of  Correction  which  have  been  carried  on  under  my  super- 
intendence, are  now  tinished  (all  but  painting  the  divisional  partitions 
of  the  chapel),  according  to  the  original  designs  approved  of,  together 
with  the  subsequent  additions  and  alterations  made  by  order  of  the 
bench.  I  came  here  yesterday  in  expectation  of  being  enabled  to 
render  an  account  of  the  amount  of  such  extra  works,  but  the  bills 
from  the  various  tradesmen  employed  under  the  contractor  not  being 
all  delivered  in,  or  in  a  state  for  my  examination,  I  am  compelled  to 
postpone  this  portion  of  my  report  until  next  Sessions,  when  1  will 
attend  sufficiently  beforehand  to  measure,  investigate  ami  value  them. 


195 

Excepting  this,  I  now  report  the  completion  of  the  building  and  of  my 
task,  with  hopes  of  having  met  your  approbation,  and  that  the 
building,  work  yards,  etc.,  equal  the  expectations  formed  upon  the 
plan.  The  whole  of  the  works,  I  find  great  satisfaction  in  stating,  are 
executed  with  pricision  as  regards  the  designs,  with  excellent  materials 
and  the  soundest  workmanship,  and  in  every  respect  conformably  with 
the  contract.  The  contractor  is  therefore  entitled  to  a  further 
installment  of  <£500,  according  to  the  terms  of  his  contract  and  to  his 
entire  balance  at  such  times  as  therein  agreed." 


18th  October.  Report  of  John  Millington,  of  6,  Leigh  Street,  Brunswick  340 
Square.  "  I  have  the  honour  to  report  to  you  that  I  have  examined  the 
bills  of  Mr.  Elmes,  as  architect,  and  of  Mr.  Elger,  as  builder  of  the  new 
penitentiary,  for  work  done  over  and  above  the  contract,  and  although 
the  extra  charges  amount  to  the  very  large  sum  of  ^1401  Os.  9|d.,  yet, 
when  examined,  they  seem  to  me  quite  correct  and  satisfactory,  as  will  I 
trust  appear  from  the  following  abstract,  which  I  have  made  of  them." 

"  In  the  first  place  the  contract  did  not  include  the  inclosure  of  the  large 
back  court  or  garden  by  a  wall,  which  has  been  executed  in  height 
equal  to  the  rest  of  the  boundary  wall,  the  brickwork  and  masons 
work,  of  which  from  its  great  quantity,  and  the  extra  rusticated  stone 
cornice  and  ornaments  in  front  of  the  building,  amount  to  £882  8s.  lOd. 

"  Carpenter's  work  not  contemplated  or  included  in  the  original  contract, 
some  part  of  which  ought  to  be  considered  as  furniture,  instead  of 
appertaining  to  the  building,  and  comprising  the  strong  door  and  door 
case  in  the  boundary.  The  additional  roof  and  flooring  caused  by 
augmenting  the  size  of  the  chapel.  The  false  floor  in  same,  to  raise 
the  seats,  the  seats  and  partitions  or  pews  in  same,  the  reading  desk, 
sundry  cupboards,  shelves,  dressers,  ironing  board,  the  tables  and 
seats  in  all  the  day  rooms  and  yards,  the  screens  before  jirivies,  making 
coal  boxes  and  wheel  barrows  for  use  of  the  prisoners,  washing  stools, 
firing  for  drying  the  cells,  fixing  additional  bolts  to  all  the  cell  doors 
and  sundry  jobs,  amount  to  £234   13s.   6d. 

"  The  amount  of  charges  for  extra  ironmongery  being  chiefly  furniture, 
vizt.,  a  kitchen  range,  5  grates  and  funders  in  the  day  rooms,  the  oven 
door,  &c.,  4  parlour  stoves,  38  patent  padlocks  for  cells,  68  new  extra 
strong  bolts  with  staples  for  cell  doors,  hanging  the  bells,  etc.,  amounts 
to  £85  9s.  6d. 

"  Additional  slater's  and  plasterer's  work  caused  by  extending  the  size  of 
the  chapel  and  the  glazing  of  5  windows  in  the  same  instead  of  three 
as  originally  intended  amount  to  £23  5s.   6d. 

"  Extra  plumber's  work  and  ])ainting  in  fixing  an  additional  pump  in  the 
governor's  kitchen,  altering  tlie  situation  of  two  puni})s  in  the  yards, 
and  additional  lead  pipe  for  the  same,  additional  lead  on  ridges 
caused  by  extending  chapel,  extra  painting  on  same  account,  painting 
doors  in  boundary  wall,  together  with  the  barrows  and  coal  boxes, 
putting  letters  on  s<une,  etc.,  £46  6s.  9|tl. 


196 

"Total  sum  (with   interest  on  orders,  £1   19s.  9d,) £1403    Os.    6fd. 

which   with £2619    8s.    lOd.,    the    amount    of    the    original 

contract,  makes  £4022  9s.  4fd." 

357  Account  for  repairing  Stafford  Bridge,  as  follows  : — To  painting  both  sides 
of  the  bridge,  being  417  3'ards  long,  and  under  the  arches,  and  making 
good  the  stonework,  £100  ;  new  stone  for  repairing  the  coping,  gravel, 
shifting  the  earth  to  alter  the  approach  to  the  bridge,  and  putting  up 
guard  rails,  £32  10s.  3d.  ;  repairing  the  damage  done  to  the  bridge  by 
flood,  new  pointing  and  lime  whiting,  and  making  good  rims  of  arches 
with  new  stone,  and  replacing  the  guard  rails  previously  washed  away, 
£69   19s.  9d. 

375  Easter  Sessions.  Account  of  John  AVings  for  £75  for  making  plans,  etc., 
for  an  intended  penitentiary  for  the  county  of  Bedford. 

420  Account  of  James  Elmes  for  making  designs,  specifications  and  estimates, 
and  superintending  works,  reporting,  etc.,  for  a  new  county  house  of 
correction,  from  January  17th,  1819 — July  13th,  1820.  The  amount 
is  £4020  9s.  7|d.  at  5  per  cent.,  £201  (with  interest  on  orders 
charged  in  bill  @  £1  19s.  9d.  brings  the  total  to  same  as  No.  340. 
See  also  No.  423). 

428  r2th  July.  Account  of  John  Wing  for  £50  5s.  3^d.  for  scaffolding, 
taking  down,  rebuilding  and  raising  the  chimney  shafts  at  the  sessions 
house,  and  contracting  the  opening  of  chimnies,  etc. 

449  Account  of  John  Millington  for  £47  5s.  6d.  from  Oct.  19th,  1819— 
Oct.  20th,  1820,  for  attending  at  Langford  Bridge,  Stafford  Bridge,  etc., 
and  at  Bedford,  respecting  the  charges  and  measurement  at  the  new 
House  of  Correction. 

457  Petition  of  the  inhabitants  and  occupiers  of  lands  in  the  parish  of  Luton, 
as  follows,  "That  we  feel  ourselves,  in  common  with  all  other  occupiers 
of  land  in  the  county  of  Bedford,  excessively  aggrieved  by  the 
enormous  county  rates  that  have  been  levied  within  the  last  three 
years  ;  as  upon  inspection  of  the  receipts  and  disbursements  which 
have  been  printed  it  appears  that  the  sum  of  £8274  has  been  raised, 
and  £10,318  expended  for  public  purposes  during  the  last  year,  our 
proportion  of  which  has  amounted  to  the  sum  of  £493  18s.  Od.,  and 
in  addition  we  have  been  put  to  a  considerable  expence  in  erecting  a 
Bridewell,  which  we  humbly  conceive  ought  to  have  been  defrayed 
out  of  the  county  rates.  And  taking  into  consideration  the  great 
depression  of  all  agricultural  concerns,  the  taxes  payable  to  government 
and  the  rates  for  the  relief  of  the  poor,  which  we  are  fearful  we  shall 
not  be  able  long  to  sustain  ;  we  trust  and  hope  that  measures  will  be 
directly  adopted  by  the  magistrates  so  as  not  to  impose  anj'  further 
burthen  on  the  county,  being  fully  convinced  that  if  the  present  rates 
should  be  continued,  we  shall  in  the  present  exigency  of  times  be  quite 
unable  to  meet  them." 


107 

9th  March.  Presentment  that  on  inspection  of  the  prison  it  is  found  to  460 
he  well  regulated,  and  that  very  heneticial  effects  are  produced  by  the 
sub-division  walls,  which  separate  the  different  classes  of  prisoners,  and 
also  that  at  the  last  Lent  assizes  it  was  suggested  that  more  convenient 
accommodation  was  required  for  witnesses  while  waiting  to  give 
evidence  on  the  respective  bills  of  indictments,  and  the  said 
inconvenience  still  remaining,  it  appears  to  require  the  attention  of  the 
magistrates. 

11th  July.  Presentment  that  part  of  an  ancient  highway  leading  from  475 
the  town  of  Leighton  Buzzard  to  the  town  of  Hemel  Hempsted,  situate 
within  the  hamlet  of  Billington  in  the  township  of  Leighton  Buzzard, 
and  extending  from  a  bridge  called  the  Collect  to  Northall  Bridge, 
containing  in  lengtli  3195  yards,  and  in  breadth  30  feet,  is  in  great 
decay,  for  want  of  a  proper  reparation,  and  that  the  inhabitants  of 
Billington  ought  to  repair  the  same. 

12th  July  and  18th  October.     Declarations  by  John  Hull,  clerk,  rector    511 515 

of  Spudon,  William  Brutoii  Wroth,  clerk,  rector  of  Totternhoe, 
James  Beard,  clerk,  rector  of  Cranfield,  George  Owsley  Fenwick.  clerk, 
vicar  of  Kempston,  and  Edward  Orlebar  Smith,  clerk,  rector  of  the 
united  parishes  of  Holcutt  and  Salford,  that  they  have  estates 
qualifying  them  to  act  as  justices  of  the  peace. 

12th    April.     Letter    from    C.    Short,   surgeon,    to    W.    Wilshire,    Esq.,    519 
chairman  of  Quarter  Sessions.     "  In  compliance  Avith  your  request,   I 
have  visited  tlie  penitentiary  prison,  and  having  inspected  the  different 
departments,  am  enabled  to  say  that  some  of  the  cells  in  each  of  them 
are  in  a  proper  state  for  the  reception  of  prisoners." 

1st  July.     Letter  from  Robert  Hibbert,  Esq.,  to  Theed  Pearse,  Esq.,  clerk    520 
of  the  peace  for  the  county  of  Bedford,  appointing  Richard  Partridge, 
of   Leegrave,  in  the   parish   of   Luton,    to   be   high   constable   for  the 
southern    divisions    of   that    hundred,    in    the    place    of    his    brother, 
John  Partridge. 

Easter  Sessions.  Recommendation  "  that  offenders  against  the  game  526 
laws,  committed  for  periods  not  exceeding  four  months,  servants  in 
liusbandry  and  other  labourers,  for  misbehaviour  in  their  employments, 
persons  committed  for  light  offences  or  for  want  of  sureties  (with  the 
exception,  in  all  cases,  of  prisoners  of  notoriously  bad  character)  be 
committed  to  tlie  new  House  of  Correction." 

14th  ]\larch,   1800.      Extracts  from   the  enrollment  of  the  Eaton-Socum    527 
Inclosure  Award. 

CALENDAR. 

1821. 

A    calendar    of    ihe  names   of   the   coroners,    bailiffs,   and    constables    of    59 
hundreds  in  the  county  of  Bedford. 


198 

61  Epiphany  Sessions.  Gaol  Calendar.  James  iSraith,  committed  for 
having  uttered  a  counterfeit  promissary  note  of  the  Bank  of  England, 
for  payment  of  <£!,  knowing'  the  same  to  be  forged,  and  for  having  in 
his  possession  at  Kiinpton,  in  the  count}--  of  Hertford,  four  other  like 
counterfeit  notes.    Remaining  under  order  of  transportation  for  14  years. 

William  Grizzle,  convicted  of  having  deserted  from  the  Bedfordshire  Militia, 
in  which  he  was  a  private,  when  the  said  regiment  was  assembled  for 
service.  Ordered  to  hard  labour  for  6  months,  or  until  he  shall  have 
paid  the  penalty  of  -£20. 

«5  10th  January.  The  usual  Order  at  Quarter  Sessions,  in  pursuance  of  an 
act  1,  Geo.  IV.,  settling  the  sums  jiayable  for  the  hire  of  carriages 
employed  in  the  conveyance  of  troops,  in  addition  to  the  customary 
rates. 

93  2nd  May.  Order  at  Quarter  Sessions  for  Twydale  Dear,  of  Shitlington, 
to  view  the  st.ite  of  a  certain  part  of  the  highway  situate  within 
the  hamlet  of  Billington,  in  the  township  of  Leighton  Buzzard,  and 
extending  from  a  bridge  called  the  Collect  to  Northall  Bridge,  contain- 
in"  in  length  3195  yards,  and  in  breadth  30  feet;  and  to  report  on  the 
probable  expence  of  putting  the  same  in  repair. 

106  11th  July.  Order  at  Quarter  Sessions  that  the  yearly  tithe  or  corn  rent  of 
£205,  mentioned  in  an  award,  made  by  virtue  of  the  "  Eaton  Socum 
enclosure  act"  35,  Geo.  III.,  and  made  payable  to  the  vicar  of  Eaton 
Socum  and  his  successors  at  the  times  and  in  manner  therein  set  forth, 
shall  be  increased  in  proportion  to  the  average  price  of  10s.  3d.  per 
bushel  of  wheat,  and  that  the  sum  of  £385  Os.  3|d.  is  the  exact 
amount  of  the  sum,  to  which  the  said  yearly  rent  or  sum  shall  be  so 
increased.     (See  also  Xo.  425.) 

108  11th  July.  Order  at  Quarter  Sessions  discharging  William  Cook  from  his 
apprenticeship  to  Bartholomew  Dockrey,  of  Woughton-on-the-green, 
in  the  county  of  Buckingham,  tailor. 

in  11th  July.  Order  at  Quarter  Sessions  that  the  yearly  tithe  or  corn  rent 
of  £296  10s.  Od.  mentioned  in  an  award  made  by  virtue  of  the 
"  Toddington  and  Chalton  enclosure  act "  37,  Geo.  III.,  and  also  set 
forth  in  the  first  schedule  annexed,  and  referred  to  in  the  said  award, 
shall  be  increased  to  the  sum  of  £552  lis.  4;|d.,  and  that  the  several 
annual  rents,  sums  of  money  or  corn  rents  fixed  and  cliargod  by  the 
saiil  award,  upon  such  homesteads,  gardens,  orchards,  and  ancient 
enclosures,  the  respective  owners  of  wdiich  had  not  lands  or  property 
in  the  open  and  common  fields,  lands,  or  grounds,  sufficient  to  exonerate 
the  same  from  tithes,  particularly  set  forth  and  declared  in  the  second 
schedule  to  the  said  award  annexed,  shall  be  severally  increased  to  the 
several  yearly  rents  or  sums  set  forth  in  the  first  schedule,  and  that  the 
several  annual  corn  rents  set  fortli  in  the  third  schedule  shall  be  severally 
iucreased  to  the  scverul  yearly  rents  set  forth  iu  the  seuoud  schedule. 


199 

12th  June.  Copy  of  an  orrler  made  at  a  general  meeting  of  the  trustees  of  the  130 
IJiggleswinU^  Turiipikt;  Roail,  that  the  clerk  of  the  peace  be  HCipiaiiited 
that  Washbrooke  Bridge,  nearly  adjoining  Biggleswade  Bridge,  is  in  a 
very  dangerous  state,  and  that  the  trustees  hope  to  learn  that  the 
magistrates  of  the  county  of  Bedford  will  take  the  same  into  their 
consideration. 

18th   October.     Order  at   Quarter  Sessions    that   the    magistrates  of   the    131 
county  have  great  pleasure  in   conveying  to  the   Revd.   G.    II.   Bower, 
chaiijain  of  the  gaol  and  Houses  of  Conection,  their  unanimous  thanks 
for  the  extraordinary  zeal  and  assiduity  with  which  he  has  attended  to 
his  duties. 

18th  September.  Order  for  the  diverting  and  turning  of  a  certain  part  of  132 
a  highway  within  the  parish  of  Flitton-cum-Silsoe,  in  the  hundred  of 
Flitt,  lying  between  Flitton  and  Greenfield,  for  the  length  of  about 
230  yards,  and  particularly  described  in  the  plan  annexed,  and  stating 
that  a  course  for  a  proposed  new  highway  in  lieu  thereof,  through  the 
lands  of  the  vicarage  of  Flitton,  of  the  length  of  about  210  yards,  and 
of  the  breadth  of  30  feet,  has  been  viewed. 

16th  September.     Consent  by  Annabella  Countess  De  Grey,  of  Wrest,  in    133 
the  county  of  Bedford,  to  the  making  of  a  new  highway  through  her 
lands  (she  being  part  owner  of  those  lands)  described  in  an  annexed 
plan,   through    which   part  of  a  higlrway,   lying  between  Flitton  and 
Greenfield,  is  intended  to  be  diverted. 

6th  October.  Plan  of  the  proposed  new  highway,  and  consent  by  the  134 
Dean  and  Chapter  of  the  Cathedral  Church  of  Christ,  of  the  foundation 
of  King  Henry  VIII. ,  in  the  University  of  ( Jxford,  to  the  making  of  a 
new  highway  through  the  rectorial  allotments,  set  out  by  the  Com- 
missioners in  pursuance  of  the  "Flitton-cum-Silsoe  and  PuUox  Hill 
enclosure  act"  49,  Geo.  III.  The  said  l)e;in  being  entitled,  with  the 
Countess  De  Gre}^  to  the  impropriate  rectory  of  Flitton-cum-Silsoe, 
they  both  being  patrons  in  full  right  of  the  same. 

18th  September.     Notice  that  the  order  for  diverting  the  above  road  has    13.5 
been  lodged  with  the  cJeik  of  the  peace. 

17th  October.     Certified  yearly  return  by  Thomas  Warner,  gaoler,  of   417 
the  state  of  Bedford  gaol. 

Easter  Sessions.  Report  of  the  Chaplain  of  the  gaol  and  Houses  of  423 
Correction.  "  During  the  last  quarter,  nothing  material  has  occurred 
to  call  for  any  observations  from  me.  The  behaviour  of  the  prisoners, 
with  very  few  exceptions,  has  been  good,  and  in  those  few  instances  where 
punishment  lias  been  resorted  to  there  was  nothing  in  the  offence  that 
was  at  all  of  an  aggravated  nature.  The  convicts  now  under  sentence 
of  transportation  (12  for  life,  I   for  1-1  years,  and  4  for  7  years)  have 


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uniformly  behaverl  themselves  well.  In  the  new  House  of  Correction 
there  has  been  a  bail  description  of  characters  in  couHnenient,  but  of 
these  even  there  has  not  been  much  reason  to  complain.  In  the 
(lay-time  they  have  been  constantly  under  inspection,  and  in  the  night 
they  have  had  no  temptation  to  be  troublesome.  We  have  to  lament 
one  escape  from  the  prison  during  the  night-time,  which  arose  entirely 
from  the  insecurity  of  the  sleeping  cell,  and  cannot  be  at  all  imputed 
to  any  negligence  on  the  part  of  the  governor.  In  the  new  House  of 
Correction  the  library  of  religious  books  and  tracts  is  nearly  completed, 
but  cannot  yet  be  said  to  be  in  use.  The  books  for  the  library  of  the 
gaol  have  not  yet  arrived,  but  may  now,  I  think,  be  expected  soon. 

426  Michaelmas  Sessions.  Report  by  John  Millington,  county  surveyor, 
stating  that,  upon  instructions  received  at  the  last  Piaster  Sessions,  he 
prepared  drawings  and  an  estimate  for  a  stepping-mill,  chapel,  laundry, 
two  infirmaries,  and  other  necessary  appurtenances  to  the  new  House 
of  Correction,  and  which,  he  reported,  might  be  completed  for  £1700, 
and  an  order  was  made  accordingly.  Further  improvements  and 
enlargements  were  then  brought  to  the  consideration  of  the  magistrates, 
by  which  the  estimate  was  increased  to  £1890.  These  additions, 
which  consisted  chiefly  in  an  enlargement  of  the  chapel  and  infirmaries, 
(rendering  their  front  more  uniform)  in  the  construction  of  cellars 
under  the  same,  in  the  enlargement  of  the  drying  yard  to  the  laundry, 
and  in  the  adoption  of  a  loft  36  feet  long  for  stowing  corn  and  flour 
over  the  tread  wheels,  this  being  considered  too  important  to  be 
neglected,  the  amended  designs  were  adopted  and  ordered  to  be 
proceeded  upon.  Mr.  John  Penn,  millwright  of  Greenwich,  offering 
to  furnish  and  put  up  the  mill  work  for  £630,  and  Mr.  Thomas  Elger,  of 
Bedford,  builder,  having  agreed  to  do  the  whole  of  the  building  according 
to  plans  for  £1260,  the  work  was  commenced  by  them  on  the 
1st  and  3rd  of  September.  By  Mr.  Penn's  contract  he  engages  to  find 
and  fix  the  whole  of  the  mill  work  and  machinery  with  three  tread 
wheels  for  working  two  pairs  of  3  :  4  French  millstones,  a  flour  dressing 
machine,  a  pair  of  malt  rollers,  and  tackle  for  hoisting  sacks,  the  whole 
to  be  corapleteil  on  or  before  the  31st  December  next,  and  upon 
inspection  of  his  proceedings  at  Greenwich  the  articles  to  be  supplied 
are  in  so  forward  a  state,  that  their  dispatch  has  been  promised  in 
14  days'  time.  The  items  from  ]\Ir.  Elger's  contract  being  as  follows. 
"  A  building  for  the  mill  and  tread  mills,  containing  not  only  the  mill 
and  its  appurtenances,  but  likewise  an  extensive  loft  for  corn  and  flour, 
two  prison  stoi-e  rooms,  a  dwelling  room  for  a  turnkey,  two  refractory 
cells,  two  privies,  and  a  fenced  yard  or  airing  ground,  with  pumps,  etc., 
^650. 

A  new  chapel  on  enlarged  plan,  a  male  and  female  infirmary  under  same, 
and  two  spacious  cellars  with  staircases,  and  a  fenced  yard,  £402  10s. 
A  new  laundry  furnished  with  a  copper  ironing  stove,  ironing  board, 
soft  water  tank,  pump,  stone,  sink,  etc.,  and  an  enclosed  yard  for  drying 
clothes,  and  the  womens'  infirmary  £135  19s.  9d. 

Eemoving  the  wall  between  the  wards  Nos.  1  and  2,  and  building  5 
additiorial  new  cells,  making  a  receiving  and  bath  room,  altering  tlie 
]iresent  committee  room  into  an  office,  and  the  present  chapel  into  a  bed- 
chamber, and  sundry  minor  alterations  about  the  premises,  £71  10s.  3d. 


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The  report  further  shows  that  a  great  saving  has  accrued  to  the  county,  from 
the  whole  of  the  foundation  and  drain  digging,  etc.,  having  been  done 
by  the  prisoners.  The  said  surveyor  further  states  that  Tempsford 
Bridge  is  in  course  of  repair  and  will  soon  be  completed,  and  upon 
examination  of  Wasli-Brook  Bridge  at  Biggleswade  which  is  of  timber, 
he  finds  it  to  be  in  a  very  decayed  condition,  thus  rendering  its 
substantial  repair  impossible,  and  that  the  safety  of  the  road  may  be 
very  much  improveil  and  increased  by  widening  the  present  bridge 
about    10    feet,    which    will   encroach    upon   a    meadow    belonging    to 

Forster,  Esq.,  of  Biggleswade,  who  gives  his  full  consent  to 

the  alteration  in  consideration  of  an  acknowledgement  of  .£5  for  the 
land  to  be  taken  from  him.  The  expense  of  rebuilding  the  bridge, 
and  putting  new  posts  and  rails,  painting,  etc.,  in  its  present  form, 
will  not  exceed  .£90,  but  if  widened  and  altered  as  proposed,  it  will 
amount  to  £140,  including  the  compensation  to  Mr.  Forster.  In 
consideration  of  the  question  arising  as  to  whether  the  magistrates 
ought  to  widen  and  improve  this  bridge,  without  acting  in  concert  with 
the  trustees  of  the  road,  the  repairs  have  not  yet  been  put  in  hand. 

10th  January.     Account  of  George  and  William  Francis,  bricklayers,  for    455 
£27    Is.   2^d.  for  l)uilding  a  brick  wall  to  the  penitentiary  back  ground, 
an   additional   length   of   4   poles,  2   feet,    6  inches  by  agreement,   at 
<£4   19s.  Od.  per  pole,  and  to  building  a  water  cistern  and  cullering,  &c. 

Easter  Sessions.     Bread  Return  for  £223   2s.   5d.  for  the  county  gaol    473 
and  old  and  new  Houses  of  Correction. 


Treasurer's  account  from  Easter  sessions,  1820,  to  Easter  sessions,  1821,    483 
receipts  £9848  lis.  4d.,  expences  £9944  7s.  4d. 

11th  July.     Estimate  for  £588  2s.  6d.  for  repairing  a  certain  road  in  the    500 
hamlet  of  P.illington,  in  the  township  of  Leighton  Buzzard,  from  Collect 
Bridge   to   Northall   Bri<lge,  containing   in   length    3195   yards,   being 
145  chains,  22  links,  and  in  breadth  30  feet. 

5th  January.      Petition  of  the  inhabitants  and  occupiers  of  land  in  the    538 
parish  of  Toddington. 

"  We  are  paying  high  rents  and  oppressive  taxes,  our  rates  for  the  poor  are 
more  than  doubled,  and  at  the  same  time  the  produce  of  the  land 
which  we  occupy  is  reduced  more  than  a  moiety  in  value.  In  addition 
to  these  heavy  grievances  the  amount  of  the  county  rates  is  become 
enormous,  and  that  rate  only  has  cost  this  parish  during  the  last 
21  months,  £400  4s.  Od.,  whereas  during  the  same  time  immediately 
preceding,  it  cost  this  parish  but  £174  18s.  Od.,  hence,  it  is  evident 
that  this  tax  is  more  than  doubled.  We  hun)bly  and  earnestly  beseech 
the  magistrates,  to  take  into  their  consideration  the  heavy  burthens 
with  which  we  are  loaded  and  to  do  their  utmost  to  relieve  us,  or  we 
must  sink  under  thuni.     The  vessel  is  sinking,  add  a  little  more  to  her 


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cargo,  and  she  must  go  down.  This  is  a  true  statement  of  our  case, 
and  not  of  our  only  but  of  that  of  the  whole  county,  and  wc  fear  that 
of  the  British  Empire.  A  cheerful  prospect  before  us,  would  soften 
our  present  sufferings,  but  we  are  encircled  by  a  black  chilling  tempest 
of  taxes,  without  one  star  to  illuminate  the  horizon.  Respecting  the 
county  rates,  we  see  with  surprise  in  the  printed  statement  of  last 
year's  account,  that  the  disbursement  exceeded  the  receipt  by  nearly 
£1600." 

540  2nd  May.      Petition  of  John  Morris,  one  of  the  surveyors  of  highways  in 

the  parish  of  Salford,  to  the  magistrates,  requesting  them  to  direct  the 
county  surveyor  (or  to  appoint  a  person)  to  inspect  the  building  of  a 
bridge  in  the  said  parish,  in  a  place  called  Low  Bush,  on  the  road  from 
Salford  to  Broughton,  in  the  county  of  Buckingham,  so  that  the  said 
bridge  may  be  hereafter  repaired  and  maintained  at  the  expence  of  the 
county,  according  to  an  act  43  Geo.  III. 

541  3rd  May.     Petition  of  John  Webb,  of  the  parish  of  Marston  Moretaine,  to 

have  the  building  of  a  bridge  in  the  said  parish  inspected,  the  said 
bridge  being  in  a  place  called  Home  Lane,  leading  from  Marston  to 
Millbrook,  so  that  it  may  hereafter  be  repaired  at  the  expence  of  the 
county,  according  to  an  act  as  mentioned  in  the  foregoing  petition. 

544  11th  July.  Petition  of  Arnall  Thomas  Lazeman,  M.D.,  an  insolvent 
debtor,  and  a  prisoner  in  the  county  Gaol,  praying  for  a  remittance  of 
his  sentence  on  account  of  ilhhealth. 

546  Petition  of  certain  inhabitants  of  the  parish  of  Caddington,  that  they  feel 
aggrieved  by  the  enormous  county  rates  that  have  been  levied  within 
the  last  three  years,  as  upon  inspection  of  the  receipts  and  disbursements 
it  appears  that  £8724  has  been  raised,  and  £10,318  expended  for 
public  purposes  during  the  last  year,  the  said  inhabitants  proportion  of 
which  has  amounted  to  £34,  and  this  in  addition  to  the  great 
depression  in  all  agricultural  concerns,  taxes  payable  to  government 
and  the  poor  rates,  has  caused  the  petitioners  to  hope  that  the 
magistrates  will  adopt  measures  so  as  not  to  impose  any  further  burden 
upon  them.     Signatures. 

666  2nd  May.  Presentment  that  part  of  an  ancient  highway,  situate  in  the 
parish  of  Barton-in-the-Clay,  commencing  nearly  opposite  a  public 
house  called  "  the  Bull,"  and  ending  at  a  road  leading  to  the  village  of 
Hexton,  in  the  county  of  Hertford,  containing  in  length  about  212  polei=, 
and  for  various  breadths  from  30  to  40  feet,  is  in  great  ilecay,  ancl 
that  the  inhabitants  of  Barton-in-the-Clay  ought  to  repair  the  same. 

701  &  702  2nd  May  and  11th  July.  Declarations  by  Cliarles  Iliggins,  Esq.,  of 
Turvey,  and  Samuel  Charles  Whitbread,  of  Cardington,  that,  being  the 
owners  of  lands,  etc.,  they  are  qualified  to  act  as  justices  of  the  peace. 


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11th  September.  Bedford.  Letter  from  John  H.  Warden  to  some  justice  711 
oi  the  i^eace  whom  he  addresses  as  "  Revd.  Sir."  Points  out  that  the 
extent  of  crime  in  the  county  and  the  organised  bands  which 
perpetrate  robbery  of  ahnost  every  description,  require  an  active  police 
force  for  many  reasons,  firstly,  that  a  general  knowledge  may  be 
obtained  of  loose  and  desperate  characters  in  this  county  which  can 
only  be  obtained  by  persons  whose  business  it  is  to  search  them  out, 
and  secondly,  that  it  can  only  be  by  practice  that  the  officer  becomes 
acquainted  with  the  aitful  devices  of  experienced  robbers,  and  further, 
the  inexperienced  constable,  who  is  perhaps  new  to  his  office  every 
year,  cannot  be  aware  of  their  manoeuvres,  in  short,  he  has  other 
objects  in  view,  his  business  of  all  things  must  be  attended  to,  and 
knowing  that  his  term  of  service  will  soon  expire,  he  cannot  give  it 
the  attention  his  office  and  his  country  require.  In  the  event  of  an 
active  police  being  instituted,  the  officers  must  have  something  as  a 
dependance,  for  no  man  of  business  can  independently  do  his  duty  ; 
for  the  lower  classes  in  life  attack  him  with  every  opprobious  name, 
and  every  endeavour  is  made  by  them  to  injure  him  in  his  profession, 
and  thus  fearing  the  injury  likely  to  be  sustained  he  becomes  passive, 
winks  at  crime,  and  passes  by  depredation,  not  wishing  to  observe  it. 
As  a  benefit  to  the  county  it  is  suggested  that  the  county  police 
officer  be  under  the  direction  of  every  magistrate,  to  attend  at  any 
place  within  the  county,  to  assist  in  discovering  any  robbery  that  may 
have  been  committed,  free  of  expence  to  the  parish  or  place  where  the 
same  may  have  taken  place. 

16th  May.  Whitehall.  Notice  in  pursuance  of  an  act  5-3  Geo.  III.,  c.  152,  717 
called  "an  act  for  granting  to  His  Majesty  £20,000  to  be  applied 
towards  repairing  roads  between  London  and  Holyhead,  etc.,"  and  of 
an  act  1  Geo.  IV.  "for  improving  roads  between  London  and  Chirk  in 
the  county  of  Denbigh,  etc.,"  that  it  has  been  determined  to  alter  and 
improve  a  part  of  the  road  near  Ilocklifi'e. 

17tii  October.     Testimony  of  the  justices  of  the  county  of  Bedford  to  the    718 
great  professional  skill  of  ]\lr.    Millington,   both  as  regards  the  work 
itself,  and  the  economy  with  which  it  was  carried  out. 


CALENDAR. 

1822. 

26th  November.  Notice  by  two  Justices  of  the  peace  to  the  constables  of  10 
the  hundreds  of  Barford,  Hodden  and  Willey,  that  on  Decemlier  4th 
they  will  attend  at  the  house  of  James  Baker,  commonly  called  the 
Anchor,  situate  in  the  parish  of  Great  Jkrford,  in  the  hundred  of 
Barford,  for  the  purpose  of  viewing  the  several  public  carriage  roads 
within  the  parish  of  Great  Barford,  set  out  in  pursuance  of  an  act  of 
Parliament  passed  in  41  Geo.  III.,  entitled  "An  Act  for  consolidating 


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in  one  act  certain  provisions  usually  inserted  in  acts  of  inclosure  and 
for  facilitating  the  mode  of  proving  the  several  facts  usually  required 
on  the  passing  of  such  acts,"  And  also  of  an  act  passed  in  the 
1  Geo.  IV.,  intitied,  "An  act  for  inclosing  lands  in  the  parish  of 
Great  Barford  in  the  County  of  Bedford,"  and  if  on  such  view  the  said 
public  carriage  roads  shall  appear  to  be  completed  and  repaired,  they 
shall  certify  the  same  in  writing  (see  also  Nos.  628  and  629). 

22  15th  January.  Consent  of  the  churchwardens  and  principal  inhabitants 
of  the  parish  of  Clophill,  that  James  Mann  of  that  parish  shall  be  dealt 
with,  with  all  the  severity  of  the  law  for  not  providing  for  his  family. 

69  January.  A  return  of  persons  committed  for  trial  upon  charges  of  felony, 
and  misdemeanor,  stating  their  names,  crimes,  and  the  result  of  their 
commitments. 

Similar  returns  for  the  months  of  April,  July  and  October. 

86  16th  January.     Order  at  Quarter  Sessions  fixing  the  sums  to  be  paid  for 

the  hire  of  carriages  employed  in  the  conveyance  of  troops  in  addition 
to  the  customary  rates  of  Is.,  9d.  and  6d.  par  mile  respectively. 

87  16th  January.     Order  at  Quarter  Sessions  by  two  Justices  of  the  peace  at 

a  special  session  held  at  Flitton  in  the  hundred  of  Flitt,  that  they  have 
found  that  a  certain  part  of  a  highway  within  the  parish  of  Flitton- 
cum-Silsoe  in  the  said  hundred,  lying  between  Flitton  and  Greenfield 
for  the  length  of  230  yards  or  thereabouts,  and  particularly  described 
in  the  plan  hereunto  annexed  may  be  diverted  and  turned  so  as  to 
make  the  same  more  commodious  to  the  public,  and  having  viewed  a 
certain  course  proposed  for  the  new  highway  in  lieu  thereof  through 
the  grounds  of  the  vicarage  and  rectory  of  Flitton  of  the  length  of  210 
yards  or  thereabouts,  and  of  the  breadth  of  30  feet,  described  in  the 
])lan  annexed.  And  having  received  eviilence  of  the  consent  of  the 
Dean  and  Chapter  of  the  Cathedral  Church  of  Christ  in  the  university 
of  Oxforil,  and  the  Right  Honourable  Amab^ll,  Baroness  Lucas  as 
their  lesse,  who  are  entitled  to  the  impropriate  rectory  or  parsonage  of 
Flitton-cum-Silsoe,  and  of  the  rectorial  tithes  thereunto  belonging,  and 
the  said  Dean  and  Chapter,  being  also  patrons  of  the  vicarage  of  the 
same  parish  to  the  said  new  highway  being  made  through  the  lands 
lierein  before  described  and  the  same  set  out  by  the  Commissioners 
appointed  under  49  Geo.  III.,  "for  the  inclosure  of  the  lands  of 
FliLton-cum-Silsoe  and  Pulloxhiil  in  the  said  county,"  order  that  the 
said  highway  be  diverted  and  turned. 

88  Plan  relating  to  tlie  above  mentioned  highway. 

89  3rd  April.     Order  at  Quarter  Sessions  for  the  County  of  Buckingham,  on 

the  repurt  of  the  committee  on  Northall  Bridge,  the  clerk  of  the  peace 
for  that  county  do  inform  the  clerk  of    the  peace  for  the  county  of 


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Bedford  for  the  tlie  information  of  the  justices,  that  it  appears  that  the 
county  of  I)uckiiii,'ham  is  liable  to  the  repair  of  that  part  of  the  bridge 
situated  within  the  same,  and  that  the  said  committee  be  empowered 
to  take  measures  in  concert  with  the  justices  of  Bedfordsliire  for 
rebuilding  the  bridge,  and  that  they  do  report  the  result  to  the  next 
adjournment  (see  also  No.  101). 

17th  April.  Order  at  Quarter  Sessions  upon  tlie  application  of  The  103 
Reverend  John  Pridden,  vicar  of  the  parish  church  of  Caddington,  in 
the  counties  of  Bedford  and  Hertford  in  pursuance  of  an  act  38 
Geo.  III.,  entitled  "An  act  for  dividing  and  inclosing  the  open  and 
common  fields,  commons  and  waste  lands  in  the  parish  of  Caddington 
in  the  counties  of  Bedford  and  Hertford."  And  upon  proof  of  notice 
of  such  intended  application  in  the  London  Gazette  and  the 
Northampton  Mercury  on  the  first  day  of  publication  in  the  month  of 
January,  did  name  and  appoint  William  Alexander  Peppercorn,  of 
Saint  Neots  in  the  County  of  Hmitingdon,  and  Joseph  Tween,  of 
Houghton  Regis,  to  be  chosen  with  a  third  person,  for  ascertaining  the 
price  of  a  Winchester  bushel  of  wheat  for  the  last  21  years,  and  if  it  is 
found  that  the  average  price  is  more  or  less  than  the  price  set  forth  in 
the  award  by  the  value  of  2d.  the  yearly  corn  rent  is  to  be  increased 
or  diminished  in  proportion. 

17th  October.  Order  by  the  Justices  that  the  clerk  of  the  peace  do  124 
deliver  his  account  for  professional  business  from  1798  together  with 
his  reasons  for  delaying  so  long  in  handing  them  in  ;  that  the  chairman 
examine  the  accounts  and  compare  them  with  the  vouchers  •  that  the 
clerk  of  the  peace  be  paid  £500  on  account  of  his  charges,  and  that  it 
will  be  more  convenient  to  the  county  to  pay  the  l)alaiice  by  instalments 
to  arise  from  the  half  yearly  receipts  on  account  uf  Tempsford  Bridge. 

17th  October.  Ordered  that  according  to  the  repurt  of  Mr.  Millin"ton,  125 
two  tread  wheels,  of  sufficient  dimensions  to  employ  24  men  be 
supplied  to  the  county  Gaol,  the  cost  of  which  will  amount  to  £250. 
]f  there  is  sufficient  space,  the  justices  recommend  that  the  tread 
wheels  be  maile  of  sufficient  length  to  admit  of  the  employment  of  a 
greater  number  of  men,  and  that  a  wash  house  be  made  in  the  women's 
ward,  according  to  a  plan  produced  by  Mr.  Millington. 

18th  February.  Order  by  two  Justices  of  the  peace  that  having  upon  1-13 
view,  found,  that  a  certain  footway  within  the  parish  of  Luton,  passin" 
through  a  close  of  pasture  ground  of  William  Townrow,  from  a  lane  at 
the  north  corner  of  the  said  close  along  the  north  east  side  of  the  said 
close  into  the  highway  leading  from  Luton  to  Market  Street  at  the  east 
corner  of  the  said  close  for  the  length  of  158  yards  or  thereabouts,  and 
particularly  described  in  the  plan  hereunto  annexed  marked  A,  is 
unnecessary,  and  that  it  be  stopped  up. 

Plan  relating  to  the  above  mentioned  footway.  l-il 


^206 

145  18th  Felnnary.  Notice  by  two  Justices  of  the  peace,  tliat  the  order 
rehitiii;^  to  the  above  mentioned  footway  will  l)e  lodged  with  the  clerk 
of  the  jieace  ami  be  conlirnied  at  tl;e  next  general  Quarter  Sessions. 
This  notice  was  lixed  on  the  church  door  of  Luton  parish  church  and 
by  the  side  of  the  footpath  for  three  consecutive  Sundays. 

397  4th  December.  Certificate  that  the  following  public  roads  and  highways 
ill  the  parish  of  Great  Darford  have  been  repaired,  (tiiat  is  to  say)  one 
luiblic  carriage  road  and  highway  through  and  over  the  lands  and 
grounds  in  the  said  paiish,  intended  to  be  divided,  allotted  and 
inclosed,  of  the  breadth  of  30  feet,  except  where  the  same  shall  pass 
between  old  Inclosures,  being  the  Wilden  Road,  branching  out  of  a 
turnpike  road  in  the  said  parish  of  Great  Barford,  leading  from  Bedford 
anil  Goldington  to  Koxton  at  the  north  east  end  of  a  lane  called 
Herring's  Lane,  and  proceeding  in  a  north  westwardly  direction 
between  lands  called  Bolts  Leys  and  Towns  End  Leys  to  Green  End, 
and  thence  to  the  south  end  of  a  lane  called  Shakers  Lane,  and  thence 
in  a  northwardly  direction  along  Wilden  Way,  in  nearly  the  present 
track,  and  over  I\^orth  Fields  to  the  east  end  of  a  lane  called  Turvey's 
Lane,  where  it  enters  a  public  carriage  road  in  the  parish  of  Wilden. 
And  one  other  highway  of  the  breadth  of  30  feet,  branching  out  of  the 
Town  Street  at  the  south  corner  of  a  homestead  belonging  to  the 
trustees  of  Whitbread's  Charity  P]state,  and  proceeding  in  a  north  east 
direction,  along  an  ancient  lane  and  part  of  an  old  inclosure  belonging 
to  Mrs.  Sarah  Halsey  to  Littlefield,  in  the  same  direction,  over  the  said 
Littlefield,  till  it  enters  the  Goldington  and  Bedford  Turnpike  Road, 
at  the  north  east  corner  of  an  aliutment  to  Edward  Sutton. 


408  25th  December.  Certified  Return  "f  ihe  names  and  numbers  of  the 
officers,  non-commissioncKl  officers  and  privates  of  the  Bedfordshire 
Regiment  of  Militia,  consisting  of  1  colonel,  1  lieutenant-colonel, 
1  major,  4  captains,  7  lieutenants,  3  ensigns,  1  adjutant,  1  surgeon, 
1  jniymaster,  1  assistant  surgeon  and  quartermaster,  and  344  rank  and 
file..      Is'ames  of  the  officers  yiven. 


409  2rHh  December.  Certified  Return  of  the  Bedfordshire  Regiment  of 
Militia ;  this  is  the  same  as  the  preceding,  with  the  exception  of  the 
rank  and  file,  which  amounts  to  320  and  6  lieutenants. 


410    25th    December.     Certified    Return   of    the   Bedfordshire    Regiment    of 
Militia  ;  this  is  the  same  as  No.  408. 


411    IGth  (October.     Annual  Certificate  of  Thomas  Warner,  gaoler,  respecting 
Bedford  Gaol. 


412  IGth  April.  Report  of  the  cinnmittec  appointed  to  eiHjuiie  into  the 
liabilit}'  of  the  county  of  Buckingham  to  repair  that  part  of  Nt)rthall 
Bridge  which  is  situate  iu  that  county. 


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"Thatyonr  committee  have  inspected  the  bridije  called  Northall  Eridf(c, 
situate  partly  in  the  hamlet  of  Northall,  in  the  parish  of  Edie.shorouyh, 
in  the  county  of  Buckingham,  and  partly  in  the  hamlet  of  Billington, 
in  the  county  of  Bedford,  and  that  on  such  survey  and  inspection  the 
county  surveyor  attended." 

"  That  the  said  bridge  is  very  much  out  of  repaii',  an(l  it  appeared  to  the 
said  committee  from  the  opinion  of  the  surveyor  of  Bedfordshire,  as 
■well  as  that  of  Buckingham,  to  be  advisable  that  the  same  should  be 
taken  down  and  rebuilt,  and  made  wider  and  more  commodious." 

"That  upon  the  examination  of  divers  witnesses  upon  the  spot,  your 
committee  were  unal)le  to  discover  the  jieriod  of  time  when  the  said 
bridge  was  built,  nor  at  whose  expense  the  same  was  built,  nor  can 
your  said  committee  discover  more  than  one  instance  of  the  said  bridge 
having  been  repaired,  which  occurred  about  twenty-two  years  ago, 
when  one  of  the  rails  being  accidently  knocked  off,  the  same  was 
replaced,  or  put  up  again  by  a  farmer  in  the  neighbourhood,  who  stated 
to  your  committee  that  he  expected  to  have  been  repaid  the  expense 
thereof  by  the  lords  of  the  manor  of  Billington  and  Northall,  and  that 
the  agent  for  the  lord  of  the  manor  of  Hillington  paid  his  proportion 
thereof,  but  the  lord  of  the  manor  of  Northall  refused  and  did  nut  pay 
his  proportion  thereof.  And  under  these  circumstances  your  committee 
cannot  discover  that  any  person  or  persons  are  bound  ratione  tenore  to 
repair  the  said  bridge." 

"  That  your  committee  find  that  the  said  bridge  is  over  the  Ousel  (a  stream 
whicb  divides  the  counties  of  Bedford  and  Buckingham)  and  is  situate 
upon  a  public  highway  leading  from  Leighton  Bussard  to  Hemel 
Herapsted,  and  has  always  been  a  public  bridge,  used  freely  by  all  the 
King's  subjects  passing  on  the  highway." 

8th  July.     Report  of  Alexander  Peppercorn,  of  St.  Neots,  Joseph  Tween,    413 
of  Houghton   Regis,  and  Thomas  Lilburne,  of  Cardington,  that  they 
have,    according     to     instructions,    ascertained     that    tlie    price    of    a 
Winchester  bushel  of  good  marketable  wheat  in  the  county  of  Bedford 
for  the  last  21  years  is  9s.  8id. 


17th  July.  Bedford.  Report  of  G.  TI.  Bowers,  chaplain  of  the  county  414 
gaol,  to  the  justices  oi  the  })eace,  in  which  he  remarks  on  the  good 
effect  of  the  stepping  mill  in  the  new  House  of  Correction,  and  of  the 
new  system  of  discipline  generally,  which  has  been  introduced  in  the 
last  quarter;  states  that  there  has  been  a  greater  number  of  i)risoners 
this  quarter  and  last  than  was  ever  known  before,  upon  most  of  whom 
the  new  system  of  discipline  has  had  a  most  salutary  effect,  and  also 
that  the  religious  instruction  of  the  prisoners  is  not  allowed  to  interfere 
with  their  work. 


1st  July.     A  return  of  forfeitures  levied   by  the  Justices  of  the  peace  in    416 
the  county  of  Bedfrrd,   acting  within  the  division  of  the  hundred  of 
Manshead,  in   pursuance  of  several  acts  of  Parliament  made  for  the 


208 

more  effectual  prevention  of  the  use  of  false  and  deficient  measures, 
with  the  names  and  addresses  of  the  persons  convicted  and  the  amount 
of  the  forfeiture  (see  also  No.  417). 

418    3rd  October.      A  similar  return  for  the  division  of  Kedbornstoke. 

420,  421    10th  October.     Similar  returns  for  the  flivision  of  Manshead. 
and  422 

450  7th   January.      A  statement  of  the  county  rates  paid  by  the  parish  of 

Southill  for  the  last  twenty  years. 

451  16th  January.     Account  of  money  due  to  John  Millington,  Civil  En^dneer, 

for  work  done  in  1821,  as  regards  briilges,  gaols,  &c.,  amounting  to 
£149  16s.  Od. 


461  1.5th  April.  Estimate  for  building  a  bridge  between  the  hamlet  of 
Billinion,  in  the  parish  of  Leighton  Buzzard,  and  the  parish  of  Northall, 
in  the  county  of  Buckingham.  The  bridge  to  be  16  feet  in  length, 
with  one  arch  12  feet  in  width  in  the  clear,  the  arch  to  rise  4  feet 
turned  13  inches,  the  heads  3  bricks  thick,  the  side  walls  to  be  4  bricks 
thick  and  3  feet  high  to  the  springing,  the  wing  wall  to  be  7  feet  in 
length  3  bricks  thick  and  8  feet  high,  capt  down  guarded,  land  tied 
and  completed  in  a  workmanlike  manner,  as  the  plan  for  the  sum  of 
£140.     Drawing  of  the  proposed  bridge. 


557  Petition  of  Thomas  Warner,  keeper  of  Bedford  Gaol,  that  he  may  be 
allowed  to  keep  possession  of  a  small  close  of  "sweard"  land  containing 
about  2  acres,  the  property  of  Francis  Green,  Esq.,  situate  in  the  parish 
(if  Saint  Paul,  for  the  use  of  his  wife. 

570  2iid  April.  Presentment  that  a  certain  common  bridge  situate  in  the 
parish  of  Clifton  in  the  King's  common  highway,  leading  from  the 
village  of  Clifton,  in  the  said  paiish  of  Clifton,  to  the  village  of 
Stanford,  and  across  and  over  a  certain  watercourse  for  conveying  and 
draining  the  water  from  and  out  of  certain  lands  in  the  said  parish  of 
Clifton,  in  the  occupation  of  the  Honorable  Samuel  (Jngley,  into  and 
over  certain  other  lands  in  the  said  parish  of  Clifton  in  the  occupation 
of  George  Fiehl,  is  in  a  state  of  tlecay,  and  that  the  inhal)itants  of  the 
county  of  Bedford  ought  to  repair  it;. 

620  Order  that  the  visiting  magistrates  be  empowered  to  engage  a  journeyman 
miller,  to  be  employed  under  the  contrcd  of  the  Governor  of  the  new 
House  of  Correction,  and  that  they  have  authority  to  purchase  corn  to 
be  ground  and  dressed  for  making  bread  for  the  sui)ply  of  the  prisons 
anil  asylums,  and  also  tn  giiml  corn  for  jirivate  individuals  at  a  fixed 
rate  and  to  adopt  any  other  measure  that  may  appear  t(j  be  expedient 
for  the  employment  of  the  new  machinery. 


209 


i823. 

11th    ]\Iay.     Information    taken    before    George    Fenwick,   clerk   of  the    10 
peace,  that  William  Maynard  and  George  Thorogood,  of  Elston,  did 
obstruct  Bkevingtou  Eyles  and  George  Saville  in  the  execution  of  their 
duty  as  constables. 

26th  December.      Declaration  by  William  Franklin,  of  Ampthill,  printer,    13 
that  he  has  a  printing  press  and  types  for  printing,  which  he  proposes 
to  use  in  Am))t]u'll,  and  which  he  requires  to  be  registered  in  pursuance 
of  the  act  39th  Geo.  III. 

January.     A  return  of  persons  committed  for  trial  upon  charges  of  felony    47 
and    misdemeanor,    stating    their    names,    crimes,    and    the    result    of 
commitments.     Similar   returns   for  the    months  of  April,  July  and 
October. 

A  return  of  the  number  of  persons  committed  to  Bedford  Gaol  for  the    51 
whole  year. 

Epiphany  Sessions.  Order  that  the  allowance  to  constables  for  conveying  52 
prisoners  to  gaol  from  the  residence  of  the  committing  magistrate,  be 
reduced  to  the  rate  of  Is.  per  mile  for  one  prisoner  ;  Is.  6d.  per  mile 
for  two  prisoners,  and  2s.  per  mile  for  three  or  more  prisoners.  No 
extra  allowance  to  be  made  to  constables  by  any  magistrate  acting  out 
of  sessions  for  the  apprehension,  conveyance  or  committal  of  any 
prisoner;  but  any  extraordinary  case  may  be  submitted  to  the  justices 
at  the  next  General  Quarter  Sessions.  This  order  to  be  communicated 
by  the  clerk  of  the  peace  to  each  acting  magistrate,  and  to  the  treasurer 
of  the  county  by  a  printed  circular  letter. 

28th  January.  John  Clayton,  of  Cople,  miller,  convicted  before  John  53 
Higgins  and  Thomas  Charles  Higgins,  justices  of  the  peace,  acting  for 
the  hundreds  of  Earford,  Stodden  and  Willey,  and  fined  6d.  for 
neglecting  to  make  returns  to  George  Allen,  of  Harrold,  of  the  precise 
quantity  of  wheat  and  wheaten  flour  respectively  fit  for  making 
■wheaten  and  houscshold  bread,  which  should  have  been  bought  and 
sold  by  him  within  seven  days  preceding  in  each  week,  and  the  names 
and  residences  of  the  persons  of  whom  bought  and  to  whom  sold. 

28th   January.     Conviction    of   William  Gee  and  Joseph   Harrold,   the    54  &  55 
younger,  both  of  Olney,  in  the  county  of  Buckingham,   for   a  similar 
offence,  for  which  they  were  fined  £\  each. 

1st    April.     Conviction    of   Frederick   and    Joseph   Bunyan   before    two    57 
justices  of   the   peace,    on  the    complaint    of    Leonard    Hampson,    for 
having  wilfully  lopped,  defaced,  and  damaged  a  timber  tree,  growing 
on  the  waste  at  the  parish  of  Caddington,  witliout  the  consent  of  the 
owner  or  person  entrusted  with  the  care  of  the  same. 


210 

58  1st  April.     Conviction  of  John  and  Joseph  Sear  for  a  similar  offence  at 

the  same  place. 

59  17th  June.     Statement  before  Philip  Hunt,  justice  of  the  peace,  that 

Thomas  Bird,  husbandman  of  Muggerhanger  in  the  parish  of  Blunham, 
did  assault  and  resist  Joseph  Lea,  collector  of  the  tolls  in  the  parish  of 
Clapham,  on  the  turnpike  road,  leading  from  Higham  Ferrars,  in  the 
County  of  Northampton,  to  Bedford,  and  that  he  did  pass  through  the 
toll-gate  with  a  horse  and  gig  or  "  taxed  cart "  without  paying  the 
lawful  toll,  he  is  therefore  ordered  to  pay  a  fine  of  £5. 

60  &  61  22nd  September.  Conviction  of  James  Poney  and  Thomas  Faunch  for 
entering  a  wood  belonging  to  James  Henry  Leigh  in  the  hamlet  of 
Heath  and  Eeach,  for  the  purpose  of  damaging  and  cutting  a  quantity 
of  underwood  without  the  owners  consent.  Ordered  to  pay  a  fine  of 
.£1  and  10s.  costs. 


73  9th  April.  Appeal  entered  by  John  Emery,  Henry  Tingey  and  John 
Ashwell  against  the  Accounts  of  the  overseers  of  the  parish  of 
Tempsford  for  the  last  year,  and  against  the  allowance  of  the  same 
Accounts  by  the  justices.     Ordered  to  be  respited.     See  also  No.  75. 


83  4th    July.     Order    at    Quarter    Sessions    upon    the   application    of   the 

Reverend  George  Cardale,  vicar  of  Flitwick,  in  pursuance  of  an  act 
46  Geo.  III.,  intitled  "  An  Act  for  inclosing  lands  in  the  parish  of 
Flitwick  in  the  county  of  Bedford."  And  upon  proof  of  the  notice  of 
such  intended  application  having  been  given  by  writing  affixed  on  the 
principal  outer  door  of  the  parish  church  of  Flitwick  for  two  Sundays 
preceding,  did  appoint  Charles  Austin  and  Thomas  Gostelow,  of 
Ampthill,  to  be  chosen  with  a  third  person  for  ascertaining  by  means 
of  the  London  Gazette,  as  long  as  the  price  is  published — the  average 
price  of  a  Winchester  bushel  of  good  marketable  wheat  for  the  last 
15  years.  And  if  it  is  found  that  the  average  price  thereof  is  more  or 
less  than  the  average  price  set  forth  in  the  award  of  the  commissioners 
by  the  value  of  3d.,  the  yearly  tithe  rent  payable  by  virtue  of  the  said 
act  is  to  be  increased  or  diminished  in  proportion. 

84  Schedule   relating   to    the   above    order,    giving   names   of  owners    and 

occupiers. 

87  4th  July.     Order  at  Quarter  Sessions  upon  a  similar  application  of  the 

Peverend  Henry  Hartopp  Knapp,  rector  of  the  parish  church  of 
Ampthill,  for  the  appointment  uf  Joseph  Tween,  of  Hampton  Regis, 
and  Charles  Austin,  of  Ampthill,  as  arbitrators. 

88  Schedule   relating   to    the   above    order,   giving   names    of   owners   and 

occupiers. 


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16th    July.     Unfinished     Order   at    Quarter    Sessions   upon    a   similar    90 
application  of  the  Reverend   William  Pierce  Nethersole,  rector  of  the 
parish  of  Clophill,  in  pursuance  of  an  Act  48  Geo.  III.,  entitled  "  An 
Act  for  inclosing  lands  in  the   parish   of   Clophill   in  the   county   of 
Bedford." 

Schedule   relating    to    the    above   order,    giving    names   of   owners   and    91 
occupiers. 

12th  November.  Order  by  Francis  Pyra  and  Stephen  Thornton,  justices  108 
of  the  peace  for  the  division  of  the  hundreds  of  Biggleswade,  Wixamtree 
and  Clifton,  that,  having  viewed  the  foot  path  in  the  parish  of  Old 
Warden  of  the  width  of  3  feet  and  of  the  length  of  111  poles,  running 
through  several  inclosures  called  Lower  Rye  Close,  Middle  Rye  Close, 
and  Upper  Rye  Close,  mentioned  and  described  in  the  plan  hereunto 
annexed,  and  thereon  marked  in  red  ink,  they  find  the  same  to  be 
unnecessary  and  useless  to  the  public,  and  order  that  it  be  stopped  up, 
and  that  the  land  and  soil  thereof  be  sold  by  the  surveyor  of  the  parish 
of  Old  Warden  to  the  Reverend  Frederick  Neve,  whose  lands  adjoin 
thereto,  if  he  shall  be  willing  to  purchase  the  same  for  the  full  value, 
if  not,  to  some  other  person. 

Plan  of  the  above  mentioned  footway.  109 

12th  November.     Notice  as  to  lodging  the  above  order  with  the  clerk  of    110 
the  peace  and  affixing  it  to  the  church  door  at  Warden,    and   at   the 
ends  of  the  footway. 

1st  April.  Information  by  two  justices  of  the  peace  and  one  of  the  111 
surveyors  of  the  highways  for  the  hamlet  of  Limbury-cum-Biscoff,  that 
there  was  a  certain  common  highway  leading  from  the  turnpike  road 
between  Luton  and  Bedford,  at  a  place  called  IJ ray's  Ditches,  to  a  place 
called  Great  Bramingham,  and  that  there  was  a  certain  part  of  the 
said  highway  ;  that  is  to  say,  so  much  thereof  as  lies  between  a  certain 
place  markeil  A  on  the  annexed  plan,  and  a  certain  place  marked  B  on 
the  said  plan,  being  in  length  191  poles— one  side  of  which  highway 
adjoining  to  the  hamlet  of  Limbury-cum-Biscoff  lies  within  the  said 
haudet  of  Limbury-cam-Biscoff,  and  was  to  be,  and  ought  to  be 
repaired  by  the  said  ban) let,  and  that  the  other  side  of  the  same  part 
of  the  said  highway  adjoining  to  the  parish  of  Streatly,  lies  within 
the  parish  of  Streatly,  and  ought  to  be  repaired  by  that  parish,  and 
stating  that  the  repair  of  such  part  of  the  said  highway  was  very 
inconvenient  to  the  parishes  aforesaid,  and  the  want  thereof  detrimental 
to  the  public  ;  and  therefore  praying  that  the  repair  of  the  said 
highway  might  be  allotted  and  apportioned  to  the  said  hamlet  of 
Limbury-cum-Biscoff  and  parish  of  Streatly,  in  the  manner  directed  by 
the  Act  34  Geo.  III.,  entitled  "  An  Act  for  tlie  more  effectually 
repairing  of  such  parts  of  the  highways  of  this  kingdom  as  are  to  bo 
repaired  by  two  parishes."  The  justices  therefore  onler  that  the  said 
bij^hway  shall  be  divided  in  the  following  manner,  that  is  to  say,  that 


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at  the  distance  of  95|  poles  measuring  from  the  place  marked  A  in 
the  plan  hereunto  annexed,  there  shall  be  erected  certain  posts  or 
stones  marked  C  on  the  said  plan,  on  each  side  of  the  said  highway, 
and  the  whole  of  the  said  highway  from  the  place  marked  A  to  such 
posts  or  stones  shall  be  repaired  by  the  hamlet  of  Liraberry-cum-Biscofif; 
and  the  whole  of  the  said  highway  from  such  posts  or  stones  to  the 
placed  marked  B  on  the  said  plan  shall  be  repaired  by  the  parish  of 
Streatly. 

112    Plan  relating  to  the  above  mentioned  order. 

441  16th  July.  Certificate  of  two  justices  of  the  peace,  that  a  certain  part  of 
the  common  and  ancient  king's  highway,  situated  in  the  handet  of 
Billington,  in  the  parish  of  Leighton  Buzzard,  conunencing  at  a  bridge 
called  the  Collect  to  a  bridge  called  Northall  Bridge,  3195  yards  long 
and  30  feet  wide,  or  thereabouts,  has  been  repaired. 

448  15th  January.  Report  of  G.  Bowers,  chaplain  of  the  gaol  and  houses  of 
correction,  in  which  he  praises  the  behaviour  of  the  prisoners  ;  states 
that  the  labour  at  the  treadmill  has  been  "  unremitted,"  yet  without 
detriment  to  the  health  of  the  prisoners;  those  on  the  sick  list  not 
ascribing  their  illness  to  work ;  and  that  the  attendance  at  Divine 
Service,  and  the  progress  of  learning,  has  in  most  cases  been  very 
satisfactory. 

450  15th  July.     Report  by  Joseph  Tween,  of  Houghton  Regis,  and  Charles 

Austin,  of  Ampthill,  that  they  have,  according  to  instructions, 
ascertained  the  price  of  a  Winchester  bushel  of  good  marketable 
wheat  in  the  county  of  Bedford  for  the  last  15  years  to  be  9s.    ll^d. 

451  15th  July.     Similar  report  by  Charles  Austin  and  Thomas  Gostelow. 

454  1 4l.h  January.  Account  of  Thomas  Elgcn-  for  17s.  Gd.  for  work  done  at 
the  new  House  of  Correction. 

45G  15th  January.  Account  of  Tliomas  Small  for  .£1  12s.  lid.  for  work 
done  at  the  new  House  of  Correction. 

467  15th  January.     Account  of  William  Walker  for  £30  for  building  an  arch 

"across"  the  turii[)ike  road  between  Stamford  and  Clifton,  iK-ar  Clay 
Bridge. 

468  15th   January.     Account    of  Thomas    Elger    for    £21     12s.     1  Ifd.    for 

alterations  and  repairs  done  at  the  county  Hall. 

^fjl  15th  January.  Account  of  Thomas  Small,  for  .£70  4s.  Id.,  for  work  done 
at  the  new  House  of  Correction. 


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15th   January.     Account    of   Eichard    Ambrose  Eeddall,  coroner  of  the    473 
Honor  of  Aiiipthill,  for  <£17   14s.,  giving  names  of  persons  on  whom 
in(|uests  had  been  held. 

15th  Januarj'.     Account  of  Thomas  Elger,  for  X3   15s.,  for  work  done  at    476 
the  County  Gaol. 

15th  January.     Account  of  John  Millington,  for  £153  6s.,  for  work  done  ;    477 
amongst  the  items  are  the  following  : — • 

1st  January.  "Writing  a  letter  to  Mr.  Pearse  on  the  subject  of  the  progress 
of  the  mill-work  in  the  new  House  of  Correction,  in  answer  to  the 
information  from  him,  that  the  buililing  was  not  high  enough  to  contain 
the  niillwork,  &c.,  and  upon  Teujpsford  Bridge  aibitration,   &c 7s. 

3rd  January.  Writing  a  letter  to  Mr.  Elger  containing  two  sketches  for  a 
dormer  and  manner  of  raising  the  roof  of  the  mill  so  as  to  make  room 
for  the  machinery,  &c 10s,  6d. 

4th  January.  Having  heard  from  Mr.  Pearse  that  the  dressing  machine 
was  about  to  be  let  half  way  through  the  floor  iu  the  middle  of  the 
mill,  &c 5s. 

16th — 20th  January.  Attending  at  Bedford  to  inspect  the  mill,  which  was 
started  for  the  first  time  to  grind  meal,  also  to  settle  about  fixing  the 
flour  machine.  ]\Iaking  estimates  for  ordering  iron  screen  in  the 
Chapel,  attending  the  fixing  of  the  flour  mill  and  taking  dimensions 
and  making  drawings  for  patterns  for  additional  work  to  be  furnished 
by  Mr.  Penn  to  obviate  the  errors.  Directing  the  fixing  of  the  malt 
rollers  and  measuring  jNIr.  Elger's  work,  and  attending  Mr.  Pearse  to 
consult  on  the  evidence,  &c.,  respecting  the  Tempsford  Bridge 
arbitration    .  ..  =£12  12s. 

9th  April.  Attending  Mr.  Solomon  Burr,  of  Luton,  who  called  on  me 
respecting  a  bridge  which  the  inhabitants  of  Luton  were  desirous  of 
having  built,  &c 7s.  6d. 

13th — ISth  April.  Attending  Mr.  Burr,  at  Luton,  and  inspecting  the  place 
where  the  bridge  was  required,  lying  between  the  East  and  West 
Hydes ;  examined  the  mill  at  the  new  House  of  Correction  and  found 
it  complete.  Conferiing  on  the  alteration  of  Washbrook  Bridge, 
respecting  which  I  was  to  apply  to  the  road  trustees  and  with  j\Ir. 
Wroth,  about  a  bridge  which  he  presented,  but  which  was  negatived, 
&c £12   12s. 

23rd  April.  Writing  letter  and  co[)y  to  Mr.  Wells,  of  St.  Neots,  inclosing 
a  plan  and  estimate  for  widening  the  Washbrook  Bridge,  at  Biggleswade, 
and  requesting  he  wouUl  lay  it  before  the  next  meeting  uf  the  road 
trustees,  to  ascertain  if  they  would  co-operate  and  bear  the  expence  of 
£50 10s.  6d. 

5th  June.  Attending  arbitration  at  I'laptist's  Head  Coffee  House,  Alder- 
manbury,  with  Mr.  Pearse  and  Mr.  Mackie £1    15s. 

7th  June.     Attending  at  Alice's  Coffee  House,  Westuunster  Hall.  ...7a.  6d. 


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17th — 20th  July.  Attenderl  Sessions  and  received  final  instructions  for 
rebuilding  Biggleswade  Washbrook  Bridge  at  the  extended  width,  the 
road  trustees  having  consented  to  pay  their  £50,  &c £d  9s. 

13th  August.  Heard  from  i\lr.  Edwards  that  he  had  begun  Washbrook 
Bridge  on  Monday  last,  but  had  met  with  great  difficulties  on  account 
of  the  great  depth  of  the  hole  which  the  water  had  made,  and  stating 
his  inability  to  clear  the  water  and  proceed  with  the  work.  Mr.  Forster, 
Mr.  Astell,  and  some  other  gentlemen  having  stopped  the  work  from  a 
■wish  that  the  road  should  be  turned  across  the  field  in  a  straight 
direction  from  Biggleswade  Bridge,  instead  of  merely  cutting  ofi"  the 
corner,  the  expence  of  which  undertaking  being  found  to  be  too  great, 
it  was  abandoned,  and  1  was  ordered  to  proceed  as  originally  intended, 
&c £6  6s. 

15th  August.  Writing  to  Mr.  Astell  to  inform  hiin  that  the  foundations 
were  begun  for  erecting  a  new  pump,  and  inspecting  Broom  Bridge, 
&c £9  9s. 

19th  August  Attending  at  Mr.  Giles'  office  to  ascertain  how  far  Broom 
Bridge  would  be  affected  by  the  new  navigation  cut  about  to  be  made 
from  Biggleswade,  &c £1    Is. 

31st  August.  Heard  from  Mr.  Giles  that  the  Ivel  Navigation  would  not 
interfere  with  Broom  Bridge,  &c 3s.   6d. 

3rd  and  4th  September.  Attending  at  Biggleswade  to  superintend  the 
work  at  Washbrook  Bridge,  set  out  and  gave  directions  about  some  new 
fences,  and  the  formation  of  the  new  road-way  over  the  bridge,  and 
took  the  particular  dimensions  of  Broom  Bridge,  in  order  to  prepare  a 
plan  and  estimate  for  rebuilding  the  same,  &c £6  6s. 

16th  September.  Making  drawings  of  a  plan  and  elevation  for  a  cast  iron 
bridge  for  Broom,  and  estimating  the  expence  of  the  same,  &c...£4  4s. 

19th  September.  Hearing  that  my  plan  for  the  bridge  had  been  adopted, 
and  that  it  is  ordered  to  be  put  in  hand  at  once   £1    lis.   6d. 

25th  September.  Attending  i\rr.  Cottam  on  the  subject  of  this  bridge, 
when  he  agrees  to  furnish  all  the  iron  for  the  same  for  £135,  and  to 
deliver  the  same  in  six  weeks,  &c 15s, 

16th,  17th  and  I8th  October.  Attending  at  Bedfordshire  Sessions  upon 
the  subject  of  introducing  a  tread  mill  into  the  county  gaol,  taking 
measurements  and  preparing  rough  plans  and  estimates  of  the  expence 
of  the  same,  and  also  a  new  wash  house  and  laundry,  consulting 
about  Broom  Bridge  and  afterwards  attending  at  Biggleswade  to  inspect 
the  Washbrook  Bridge,  now  completed,  and  to  give  directions  for 
pulling  down  the  old  one,  &c £9  9s. 

25th  October.  Consulting  with  Mr.  Vruu  as  to  whelhor  it  would  be  better 
to  put  up  a  new  mill  at  the  gaol  or  to  alter  the  old  one,  iScc £1   Is. 

5th  November.     Directing  Mr.  Pcuu  to  proceed  with  the  tread  wheel,  &c.  15s. 


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18th  November.  Received  a  letter  from  Mr.  Pearse,  requesting  me  to  come 
to  Bedford  to  meet  the  magistrates  on  the  subject  of  the  alterations  at 
the  Sessions  House,  and  the  new  laundry  and  mill  which  have  been 
adopted  at  the  gaol,  &c £4  4s, 

15th  January.     Account  of  George  and  William  Francis,  for  =£9  15s.  4id.,    485 
for  bricklayer's  wurk  done  at  the  new  House  of  Correction  [at  Bedford]. 

15th  January.     Account  of  Samuel  Harrison,  for  £2   12s.  7d.,  fur  lirick-    491 
layer's  and  stone-mason's  work  done  at  Bromham  Bridge. 

15th  January.     Account  of  John  Revitt,  for  £6  8s.  2d.,  for  work  done  at    497 
Biggleswade  Bridge  :  underpinning  wing  walls  and  repairing  stone  wall. 

9th  April.     Account  of  Thomas  Elger,  for  £3  10s.  6d.,  for  work  done  at    506 
the  County  Hall,  Bedford. 

9th  April.     Account  of  J.  Hinde,  for  £3  9s.  8|d.,  for  work  (glazing)  done    508 
at  the  County  Gaol. 

9th  April.     Accounts  of  Thomas  Elger,  for  £2  Is.  8d.,  £78  lis.  Ifd,    509—512 
£4  7s.   2d.,  and  £64  4s.   2|d.,  for  work  done  at  the  County  Gaol  and 
House  of  Correction. 

16th  July.     Account  of  Thomas  Elger,  for  £248  4s.   ll^d.,  iov  sundry    532 
alterations    and    additions    made  to  the  new    Huiise  of  Correction   at 
Bedford  and  in  the  chapel  and  "mill"  appertaining  thereto,  no  part  of 
which  was  included  in  the  contract  for  those  buildings. 

Midsummer  Sessions.      Account  of  William  Hedding,  surveyor,  for   12s.,    543 
for  stone  laid  on  Washbrook  Bridge,  near  Biggleswade. 

17th  July.      Receipt  of  Thomas  Pantin,  for  the  sum  of  £4,  for  the  carriage    544 
of  tread  wheels  from  Mr.  IVmn's,  at  Greenwich. 

Account  of  Mr.  Edwards  for  £250  7s.   Id.  (of  wliich   he    had    received    451 
£170)  for  Washbrook  Bridge  at  Biggleswade. 

16th  July.     Account  of  William  Edwards,  builder,  for  £224   16s.   ^d.  (of   461 
uliich    be    was    paid    £170)   for  rebuilding   and    widening    the    Brook 
Bridge  at  Biggleswade. 

16th  July.      Account  of  William   Edwards  for  £25    Os.    9d.    for  sundry    562 
repairs  and  renewals  of  the  road  side  fences  on  both  sides  between   the 
Main  and  Washbrook  Bridges  at  Biggleswade,  and  at  the  two  extreme 


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ends  of  the  same  and  for  whaifing  and  piling  the  washing  way  at  the 
Stone  Bridge.  The  items  include  renewal  of  timber  work,  piles,  spurs, 
planking  to  wharf  the  washing  bay,  painting  the  whole  three  times  in 
oil,  &c. 

601     14th  October.     Account  of  Lees  Cottam  &  Co.   for  £15G  4s.   3d.  for  a 
cast  iron  bridge,  15  feet  wide  and   20  feet  span,  delivered  at  Linford. 

Note  by  John  Millington. 

"  This  bridge  was  agreed  to  be  made  for  .£13  pr.  ton  iiiclvidiiig  the  screw 
bolts  and  other  wrought  iron.  The  making  of  the  j)atlerns  from  the 
drawings,  and  the  expence  of  carriage  to  Linford  wharf.  Its  weight 
was  12  ton,  1  cwt.,  1  qr.,  12  lbs.,  which  I  make  amount  to 
j£156  16s.,  and  a  bill  has  been  delivered  to  me  for  £21  14s.  for  the 
canal  carriage  from  Colebrooke  Dale  to  Linford,  but  this  I  have 
returned  to  the  carriers  and  referred  them  to  the  makers  according  to 
the  terms  of  the  Agreement. 


607a  3rd  December.  Receipt  from  Mr.  Elger  for  £15  for  moving  a  mound  of 
earth  "  harrowing "  away  and  banking  up  the  railing  at  Tempsford 
Bridge. 

670  8th  December.     Presentment  that  there  is  a  certain  bridge  across  and 

over  a  branch  of  the  River  Ivel  commonly  called  Clay  Bridge,  the 
south  part  whereof  to  the  middle  of  the  stream  of  the  said  river  is  in 
the  parish  of  Clifton ;  and  the  north  part  whereof  to  the  middle  of  the 
stream  is  in  the  parish  of  Southill  ;  which  bridge,  leading  from  the 
parish  of  Henlow  to  the  parish  of  Northill,  is  in  a  ruinous  state  and 
ought  to  be  repaired. 

671  9th  April.     Statement  upon  oath  by  Edmund  Burke  Lewis,  clerk,  that 

he  is  possessed  of  .^utficient  estate  to  qualify  him  to  act  as  a  Justice  of 
the  Peace. 

675    15th   January.     Letter   dated   at   Bedford  from  John  Millington  to  the 
magistrates  of  the  county  of  Bedford. 

My  Lords  and  Gentlemen, 

The  business  at  present  in  my  hands  consists  of  the  re-building  of  Broom 
Bridge  with  an  iron  arch  as  finally  settled  and  ordered  on  the 
19th  of  September  last.  The  addition  of  two  retiring  rooms  and 
separate  entrances  to  the  courts  at  the  Sessions  House  and  the  erection 
of  a  stepping  mill  and  laundry  in  the  County  Goal,  wliich  though 
canvassed  at  the  last  Sessions  was  not  finally  agreed  upon  till  the 
adjourned  Sessions  of  the  21st  iS^'ovember  last. 

Broom  Bridge  was  put  in  hand  immedialely  after  receiving  orders  for  it,  the 
old  bridge  being  pulled  down,  ami  the  foundations  of  the  new  one  got 
in  in  the  third  week  in  September,  and  the  brick  work  was  liiiished 
above  the  water  line  on  the  23rd  of  JSTovember,  but  some  delay  has 


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taken  place  in  the  delivery  of  the  iron  arch  which  was  shipped  on  the 
3rd  of  January  last,  but  is  unfortunately  frozen  in  the  canal,  otherwise 
it  would  have  been  now  finished.  No  time  shall,  however,  be  lost  in 
making  it  passable,  and  the  work  having  been  done  by  Mr.  Joseph 
Scrivener,  of  Sharnbrook,  in  a  good  and  substantial  manner,  I  beg  to 
certify  that  he  may  be  paid  the  sum  of  one  hundred  pounds  on  account 
of  the  same. 

The  Wash  brook  Bridge  at  Biggleswade  being  also  finished  by  Mr.  Edwards 
of  that  place,  I  have  also  to  certify  that  he  may  receive  .£120  on 
account  of  such  work,  £50  of  which  may  now  be  demanded  of  the 
Trustees  of  the  High  North  Road  at  Biggleswade. 

The  mill  wheels  and  stepping  wheel  for  the  County  Gaol  were  ordered  of 
Messrs.  Penn,  of  Greenwich,  early  in  October,  and  the  whole  will  be 
ready  for  sending  to  Bedford  within  three  weeks. 

The  drawings  for  the  said  mill  and  laundry,  together  with  the  additions  to 
the  courts,  are  herewith  respectfully  submitted  to  the  consideration  of 
the  magistrates,  but  the  present  inclement  season  would  render  it 
improper,  if  not  impossible,  to  proceed  with  the  work  at  this  time. 


30th  July.     Letter   dated    at   6,   Leigh   Street,   Burton,   Ct.   from  John    680 
Millington,   county  surveyor,  to  Theed  Pearse,  Esq.,   relating  to  the 
work  done  at  Tempsford  Bridge. 

The  work  consists  in  putting  in  a  strong  oak  post  against  the  center  of  each 
of  the  land  arches  so  as  to  prevent  carts  from  passing  through  them  in 
future,  and  in  applying  four  times  12  feet  of  oak  planking  or  wharfing 
to  the  four  banks  of  the  river  where  it  comes  into  contact  with  the 
main  bridge  as  at  A,  A,  A,  A  in  the  annexed  sketch, 

Mr,  Newman,  however,  gave  in  an  estimate  of  further  work  which  he  said 
Avas  requisite  to  be  done  to  insure  the  safety  of  the  bridge,  and  which, 
I  think,  amounted  to  about  £80  more,  and  this  additional  work  he 
told  me  consisted  in  carrying  the  four  sheets  of  warfing  A,  A,  A,  A,  to 
a  much  greater  distance  up  and  down  the  river,  as  well  as  in  repairing 
the  new  railing  between  b  and  c,  which  has  given  way  and  is  certainly 
in  a  dangerous  state  ;  he  mentioned  likewise  the  necessity  of  repairing 
some  of  the  arches  under  the  flood  bridge  on  the  Roxton  side  and 
removing  ihe  remainder  of  the  old  road  which  has  been  improperly 
left  :  both  which  last  operations  were  not  included  in  his  said  estimate, 

I  have  carefully  looketl  into  the  whole  of  these  matters,  and  the  following 
is  the  result  of  my  investigation.  1st,  I  see  no  necessity  for  lengthening 
the  four  sheets  of  warfing  at  A,  A,  A,  A,  but  I  find  that  owing  to 
their  being  quite  straight  and  parallel  in  tl  eir  whole  course  to  the  run 
of  the  stream,  that  the  water  is  getting  behind  them  aiid  will  shortly 
underuiiiie  and  destroy  them,  particularly  in  the  two  upstream  points 
d,  d,  where  large  holes  are  already  worn,  and  1  therefore  recommend 
that  the  four  ends  of  this  warfing  should  be  returned  in  an  angular 
direction  for  a  few  feet  into  the  land  as  marked  in  red  ink,  which  will 
cost  about  40s.  for  each  end. 


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A  considerable  length  of  the  fence  railing,  b  and  c,  will  shortly  fall  down 
if  it  is  not  re])aiied,  this  does  ndt  arise  from  any  imjierfeotion  in  the 
original  workmanship,  but  from  the  bank  of  earth  at  c,  in  which  that 
railing  is  placed,  having  been  washed  away  by  floods,  and  that  washing 
away  has  evidently  been  produced  by  a  closely  boarded  barrier,  f  f, 
which  is  called  a  jump,  and  which  extends  completely  across  the 
towing  path  very  nearly  opposite  to  the  arch  thro'  which  the  towing 
horses  pass,  and  which  is  so  placed  as  to  throw  any  water  coming 
thro'  the  towing  arch  completely  against  the  bank  e.  It  is  likewise 
materially  assisted  in  its  detrimental  operation  by  a  high  mound  of 
considerable  extent  at  g,  which  is  part  of  the  old  road  or  causeway 
that  has  never  yet  been  removed.  While  these  obstacles  to  the  Water 
exist  in  their  present  form  it  is  useless  to  attempt  any  permanent 
repair  of  the  railing  at  b  c,  and  the  jump,  which  has,  I  understood, 
been  put  up  by  the  parties  interested  in  the  navigation,  must  either  be 
removed  entirely,  or  its  place  should  be  supplied  by  an  open  rail  fence 
and  gate  provided,  it  is  necessary  as  a  boundary  of  land,  which,  I  am 
informed,  it  is  intended  for,  altho'  at  present  it  has  no  connection  on 
the  land  side  with  any  fence  whatever.  The  heap  of  earth  at  g  is 
very  considerable,  but  a  part  of  it  will  be  necessary  to  reinstate  the 
bank  e  before  the  railing  can  be  repaired,  and  I  therefore  recommend 
that  the  whole  of  it  be  removed  into  the  situation  so  as  to  produce  a 
very  gradual  slope  in  the  bank,  and  remove  every  impediment  to  the 
flow  of  the  water,  but  I  do  not  think  this  can  be  accomplished  under 
about  £15.  The  railing  itself  will  only  require  to  be  straightened  and 
set  upright,  with  a  few  more  spurs  to  the  posts,  but  if  not  done  soon 
will  become  more  expensive.  The  paving  umler  all  the  arches  of  the 
Tempsford  Flood  Bridge  is  in  very  good  repair,  but  under  the  Roxton 
Bridge  three  of  the  arches,  and  two  particularly,  stand  much  in  need 
of  repair,  owing  to  the  deep  ruts  that  have  been  made  by  carts  passing 
thro'  them  to  get  to  the  small  piece  of  land  marked  h,  and  to  which 
there  is  no  other  access  than  through  these  arches.  The  grievance  has 
already  been  stated  to  the  magistrates,  and  the  posts  were  most 
probably  ordered  by  Mr.  Lilburne  to  prevent  a  recurrence  of  the  evil, 
and  no  cart  has  been  thro'  the  arches  since  they  were  put  down  ;  I 
was,  however,  never  able  to  obtain  any  satisfactory  account  of  the 
breaking  up  of  the  pavement  of  these  arches,  untill  the  other  day  when 
Toller  informed  me  that  a  Mr.  Saunders  (William)  is  the  tenant  of  the 
small  piece  of  land  marked  h,  as  well  as  the  large  piece  marked  on 
the  opposite  side  of  the  bridge,  and  that  he  rents  them  both  of  Squire 
Metcalf.  That  after  the  bridge  was  finished  Saunders  dug  the  deep 
and  wide  ditch,  k  k,  for  the  double  purpose  of  draining  his  land  and 
separating  it  frf)m  the  land  1  1,  belonging  to  the  Reverend  Mr.  Clarkson, 
of  Barford,  ami  that  he  carted  away  the  whole  of  the  soil  out  of  that 
ditch,  thro'  the  arches  of  Roxton  Flood  Bridge  for  the  purpose  of 
spreading  on  the  land  i.  That  in  this  carting  the  whole  of  the 
mischief  was  done,  and  that  no  cart  has  ever  since  passed  thro' 
the  arches,  as  Mr.  Saunders  always  feeds  down  the  grass  instead 
of  keeping  it  for  hay.  Indeed,  on  looking  at  the  arches,  I  see  it  is 
impossible  for  any  cart  to  pass  with  a  load  that  rises  above  its 
own  height.  This  will  perhaps  obviate  the  necessity  of  the  enquiry. 
I  was  some  time  since  requested  by  the  magistrates  to  make  as  to 
whether    this   small    piece    of    ground   could    not    be    purchased    by 


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the   county   so   as    to   effectually   close  the  passage  thro'  the  bridge, 
because  it  seems   Mr.   Saunders   wants   no   other   passage  but   for   his 
sheep  and  cattle  who  can  do  no  harm  to  the  pavemen't  which  really 
ought  to  be  lepaired,  because  the  floods  of  the  last  winter,  by  getting 
into  the  cart  wheel  rutts,  have  torn  up  much  of  the  brick   work,  and 
by  meeting  with  resistance  may  lead   to  further  mischief  perhaps  so 
far  as  to  disturb  the  piers  of  the  Koxton  Bridge  in  time  ;  the  possibility 
of  which  ought  to  be  removed.     From  the  above  account  you  will  be 
the  best  judge  as  to  whether  Mr.  Saunders  or  Squire  Metcalf  may  be 
liable  to  the  expence  of  any  part  of  these   repairs,    which   will   cost 
from  £15  to  £20.     I  find  there  is  also  a  considerable  portion  of  the 
original  road  left  in  the  Keverend  Mr.  Clarkson's  ground  at  m,  and  if 
a  roadway  into  the  piece  h  is  absolutely  necessary,  and  an  arrangement 
could  be  made  with  him,  it  would  be  very  conveniently  obtained  by 
converting   the   hillock    m   into    an    inclined    plane,    and    throwing   a 
common  field  bridge  over  the  ditch  at  n.     A  way  into  the  high  road 
might  in    this    way   be  obtained   from   the  piece   h  at   less   than   £5 
expense,  with  only  the  sacrifice  of  about  2  perches  of  Mr.   Clarkson's 
land,  and  in  that  case  there  could  be  no  pretext  for  passing  under  the 
Koxton  flood  arches  at  all.     Will  you  be  kind  enough  to  consider  the 
above  points  as  to  the  liability  of  the  parties  and  lay  this  statement 
before  the  Magistrates,  and  transmit  their  instructions  as  to  what  they 
wish  to  be  done  in  the  matter  before  the  winter  floods  come  on."     A 
plan  of  the  bridge  mentioned  in  the  foregoing  lefter  is  enclosed  with  it. 

15th  October.  Letter  dated  at  Bedford  from  John  Millington  to  the  684 
Magistrates,  in  which  he  states;  that  with  the  end  of  the  present 
sessions  will  terminate  all  the  heavy  expensive  works  in  which  this 
county  has  for  some  time  been  engaged  ;  that  the  portable  hand  crank 
mill,  which  has  been  erected  in  tlie  prison  for  the  purpose  of  affording 
labor  to  such  prisoners  as  were  incapable  of  working  at  the  tread  mill^ 
answers  its  purpose  perfectly.  All  the  cells  have  been  ceiled  with 
lath  and  plaster,  and  supplied  with  ventilators,  by  which  the  dampness 
on  the  roof  appears  to  have  been  entirely  removed,  and  that  no  more 
repairs  of  any  sort  will  be  necessary. 

'ilie  new  mill  and  laundry  at  the  County  Gaol  are  now  quite  finished,  the 
whole  of  the  work  is  most  creditable  and  the  buildings  very  much 
improved,  and  well  worth  the  increased  expenditure. 

He  is  not  yet  prepared  to  say  what  will  be  the  cost  of  the  new  entrance,  &c., 
to  the  Sessions  House,  but  will  find  out  as  soon  as  possible  ;  He 
recommends  the  payment  of  £500  on  account  of  the  County  Gaol  ; 
and  £100  (m  account  of  the  Sessions  House  to  Mr.  Elger,  and  £150 
on  account  of  the  mill  work  to  Mr.  Penn,  if  payment  should  be 
required. 

States  also  that  the  commissioners  of  the  Ivel  Navigation  have  consented  to 
the  necessary  repairs  being  made  at  Clay  Bridge  at  Clifton  at  their 
own  expence,  and  that  he  examined  the  state  of  Tempsford  Bridcre 
in  consequence  of  an  estimate  for  £«0  made  by  Mr.  Newman  for  tie 
repair  of  the  same,  and  having  found  that  a  few  things  vi  a  different 
nature  requireil  attention,  he  has  made  a  report  of  the  same.  Broom 
Bridge,  near  Biggleswade,  was  opened  to  the  public  early  in  April 
last,  uud  the  account  of  £106  Us.  3d.  may  be  paid  when  convenient. 


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686  14th  October.  Letter  dated  at  Newport  Pagnell  from  Jno.  Keep  &  Co.  to 
the  justices  in  which  they  regret  the  damage  done  to  Broom  Bridge 
during  the  carriage  of  the  same,  but  state  that  it  was  owing  to  the 
brittle  nature  of  the  metal,  and  trust  that  the  threatened  reduction  of 
£3  10s.  will  not  be  made. 

690  Letter  from  C.  Short  (?),  medical  officer,  asking  for  an  increase  of  his 
salary,  and  stating  that  in  consequence  of  the  new  House  of  Correction 
being  occupied  his  duties  have  very  much  increased. 

694  4th  April.     Recommendation  by  the  Justices  of  the  Peace,  that  John 

Palmer,  of  Toddington,  in  the  county  of  Bedford,  be  appointed  High 
Constable  for  the  said  Hundred,  instead  of  Mr.  George  Palmer,  of 
Goldington. 

695  22nd  March.     Notice  by  the  Eeverend  Henry  Hartopp  Knapp,  rector  of 

the  parish  church  of  Anipthill,  that,  in  pursuance  of  the  Act  46 
Geo.  III.,  he  intends  to  apply  for  two  persons  named  as  arbitrators  to 
enquire  into  the  price  of  a  Winchester  bushel  of  wheat  from  the 
London  Gazette,  and  if  the  price  of  the  wheat  is  more  or  less  than  the 
average  price  set  forth  in  the  award  by  3d.  or  upwards,  then  the 
respective  yearly  tythe  rents  charged  by  the  said  award  shall  be 
increased  or  diminished  in  proportion. 

696  27th  March.     A  similar  notice  by  the  Reverend  George  Cardale,  vicar 

of  Plitwick.  A  request  is  appended  that  Thomas  Gostelow  and 
Charles  Austin  may  be  appointed  arbitrators. 

697  7th  April.     A  request  by  Henry  Hartopp  Knapp  that  Charles  Austin  and 

Joseph  Tween  may  be  appointed  arbitrators. 

698  9th  April.     Request  by  several  members  of  the  Grand  Jury,  whose  names 

are  affixed,  that  Thomas  Moorcraft,  of  Leighton  Buzzard,  who  stands 
fined  in  the  sum  of  £5  for  non-attendance  at  the  Grand  Juiy,  may  be 
excused  from  paying  the  same  as  he  is  in  a  bad  state  of  health,  and  a 
poor  man  only  earning  2s.  6d.  a  day. 

701  4th    June.     Notice    that    the    inhabitants   of    Tempsford    have    elected, 

according  to  the  Act  39  Geo.  III.,  Robert  Denn,  Samuel  Bennett, 
John  Bird,  Tliomas  Bennett,  Chailes  Pain,  Esq.,  and  William 
Humbley,  Esq.,  to  be  members  of  a  select  vestry  for  the  concerns  of 
the  poor  of  the  parish. 

702  15th  December.     Document  signed  by  the  president  and  committee  of  the 

Union  Society  held  at  the  Swan  Inn,  Leighton  Buzzard,  authorising 
Thced  Pearse,  clerk  of  the  peace,  to  deliver  to  Richard  Saunders,  of 
Leighton  Buzzard,  tallow  chandler,  two  bonds  on  the  occasion  of  his 
resigning  the  Treasureship  oi  the  said  society. 


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Rules  for  the  treatment  and  conduct  of  prisoners  under  sentence  of  death,  79 
extracted  from  the  act  25  Geo.  II. ,  c.  37,  sees.  6  &  8.  Prisoners 
accused  of  murder  are  to  be  kept  apart  from  all  the  other  prisoners ; 
no  one  except  ihe  gaoler  or  his  servants  shall  have  access  to  them 
except  with  the  judge's  permission  before  whom  they  were  tried;  they 
shall  be  fed  only  with  bread  and  water  except  in  the  cases  of  receiving 
the  Sacrament  or  of  sickness  ;  in  the  latter  case  they  may  be  visited 
by  a  surgeon  whose  name  and  address  must  be  entered  in  the  prison 
books.  Any  gaoler  neglecting  to  keep  these  rules  shall  forfeit  his 
office,  be  fined  a  sum  of  £20,  and  suffer  imprisonment  until  the  same 
be  paid.  Prisoners  condemned  to  death  for  any  other  offence  shall 
remain  in  the  condemned  cells  and  be  visited  by  their  friends  at  all 
seasonable  times  ;  their  diet  shall  be  the  prison  allowance  only,  and 
they  shall  be  allowed  to  walk  for  a  short  time  every  day  in  the  yard. 


Twenty=one  rules  drawn  up  for  the  treatment  and  conduct  of  female  80 
prisoners  in  Bedford  Gaol  according  to  the  Act  4  Geo.  IV.,  c.  64,  and 
5  Geo.  IV.,  c.  85.  The  matron  to  reside  in  ihe  prison  and  accompany 
any  keeper  visiting  the  prisoners;  the  rooms  are  to  bo  cleaned  every  day 
and  all  the  windows  opened  ;  the  cells  to  be  unlocked  at  6  a.m.  from 
April  1st  to  September  30th,  and  at  sunrise  during  the  rest  of  the  year  ; 
no  spirituous  liquors  allowed  except  in  cases  of  sickness  ;  no  gaming  is 
permitted,  nor  is  any  prisoner  allowed  to  receive  money  ;  no  prisoner 
before  trial  shall  be  compelled  to  wear  prison  dress  unless  her  own 
clothes  be  deemed  insufficient  or  improper,  or  necessary  to  be 
preserved  for  the  purposes  of  justice  ;  any  prison  dress  needed  must 
be  plain,  and  no  prisoner  after  trial  shall  be  liable  to  be  clothed  in  a 
party  coloured  dress  unless  convicted  of  felony  ;  all  prisoners  to  be 
allowed  air  and  exercise  and  communication  with  their  friends  under 
proper  restrictions.  .No  irons  to  be  used  except  in  urgent  cases  and 
close  confinement  not  to  exceed  one  month.  Every  prisoner,  unless 
prevented  by  sickness,  to  be  employed  making,  washing,  and  mending 
the  prison  clothes  and  linen.  Prisoners  who  shall  not  receive  any 
allowance  from  the  county  shall  be  allowed  to  procure  for  themselves 
food,  clothing,  and  other  necessaries,  subject  to  certain  restrictions  and 
examinations.  The  matron  is  to  keep  an  account  of  all  work  done, 
and  shall  account  to  the  prisoners  for  so  much  of  the  net  profits  which 
they  have  earned,  and  which  they  receive  when  discharged.  No 
prisoner,  who  is  confined  under  sentence  of  any  court,  shall  receive  any 
food  or  other  necessaries,  other  than  the  gaol  allowance,  except  under 
certain  regulations ;  every  prisoner  under  sentence  of  transportation  to 
be  kept  to  hard  labour  if  her  health  permit,  either  in  the  gaol  or 
house  of  correction. 


Rules    for    the    the    treatment   and    conduct   of   convicteil    prisoners,    in    81 
pursuance  of  4  Geo.  IV.,  c.  64,  and  5  Geo.  IV.,  c.  85. 

Th«;se  rules  are  similar  to  the  preceding  with  the  following  diffeieuces. 


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Persons  who  are  convicted  of  offences  and  imprisoned  without  being 
sentenced  to  hard  labour  (except  such  who  should  maintain  themselves), 
shall  be  forced  to  support  themselves  unless  prevented  by  sickness. 
Soldiers  committed  in  execution  of  the  sentence  of  courts  martial  shall 
be  treated  as  other  convicted  prisoners. 

82  Rules    for  the   tieatment  and   conduct   of   persons  connr.itted  for  trial  in 

pursuance  of  4  Geo.  IV.,  c.  64,  and  5  Geo.  IV".,  c.  85. 

Similar  to  the  preceding  with  the  following  differences. 

Accomplices,  admitted  as  eviilence  for  the  crown,  persons  committed  for 
want  of  sureties,  and  oil  other  unconvicted  prisoners  shall  be  confined 
in  the  separate  wards  prepared  for  them,  and  be  subject  to  the  rules 
of  prisoners  committed  for  trial.  Persons  committed  for  trial  who  are 
desirous  of  working  may  be  allowed  to  do  so,  provided  that  it  shall 
not  be  lawful  to  place  together,  on  account  of  such  employment,  any 
prisoners  who  would  otherwise  be  kept  separate ;  and  that  no  prisoner 
before  conviction  shall  be  employed  on  the  treadmill  either  with  or 
without  his  consent.     Garnish  mouey  forbidden. 

83  Rules  for  the  government  and  conduct  of  prisoners  confined  for  debt,   in 

pursuance  of  4  Geo.  IV.,  c.  64,  and  5  Geo.  IV.,  c.  85. 

Debtors  inclined  to  work  may  be  employed,  or  employ  themselves,  for 
their  own  support  and  benefit,  provided  their  materials  or  tools  be  not, 
from  bulk  or  quality,  inconvenient,  or  unfit  for  admission.  Visitors 
may  be  admitted  from  10  to  4,  every  day  except  Sunday,  Christmas 
Day,  and  Good  Friday,  when  the  time  shall  be  limited  to  two  hours 
in  tlie  morning  and  evening  ;  if  visitors  shall  refuse  to  go  out  when 
required  or  shall  misbehave,  the  keeper  may  turn  them  out  and 
refuse  them  admittance  in  future.  No  dogs,  poultry,  pigeons,  pigs 
or  rabbits  shall  be  allowed  to  be  kept  in  the  prison  ;  any  debtor 
refusin"  to  obey  orders,  or  misbehaving  in  any  way,  may  be  punished 
by  confinement  to  his  rooms  for  any  time  not  exceeding  three  days,  to 
be  extended  at  the  discretion  of  the  visiting  justice. 

The  rules  as  regards  garnish  money,  the  cleaning  of  the  rooms,  the  receipt 
of  money,  and  the  allowance  of  spirituous  liquors,  &c.,  are  the  same  aa 
in  the  preceding  rules. 

88  A  Return  of  the  number  of  persons  committed  to  the  County  Gaol  for  the 
vear  1824  ;  the  crimes  for  which  they  were  indicted  and  the  number 
of  convictions. 

91  16th  November.  Record  of  the  conviction,  on  the  information  of  the 
collector  of  excise,  of  Benjamin  Allen,  of  Leighton  Buzzard,  fellmonger, 
or  parchment-maker,  for  having,  without  giving  due  notice,  taken  a 
nundjer  of  skins  out  of  his  lime  pits  in  order  to  tlry  them,  contrary  to 
the  form  of  the  statute.  He  was  fined  £20,  which  fine  was  reduced 
tu  J£6  17b.  od. 


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28th  April.  Order  at  Quarter  Sessions  upon  an  appeal  hy  John  Emery  108 
and  John  Ashwell  aj^ainst  the  accounts  of  the  overseers  of  the  poor  of 
the  parish  of  Tempsford  for  the  year  last  past ;  and  against  the 
allowance  of  the  same  accounts  by  any  justices  of  the  peace  for  the 
county  of  Bedford.  Ordereil  that  the  sum  of  X67  included  in  the 
account  as  allowed,  be  disallowed,  and  paid  over  to  the  present 
overseers,  and  that  the  remainder  of  the  saiii  account  be  allowed. 

28th  April.  Order  appointing  Thomas  Gastelow  and  Charles  Austin,  of  HI 
Ampthill,  to  ascertain  the  average  price  of  corn  and  grain  for  14  years, 
and  directing  them  to  report  tlie  same.  Which  order  was  made  upon 
the  application  of  the  Reverend  William  Pierce  Nethersole,  vicar  of 
the  parish  of  Pulloxhill,  under  the  Act  49  Oeo.  III.,  entitled,  "An 
Act  for  inclosing  lands  in  the  parishes  of  Flitton-cum-Silsoe  and 
Pulloxhill." 

28th  April.  Order  at  Quarter  Sessions  nominating  William  Willshire,  of  113 
Hitchin,  William  Henry  Whitbread,  of  Southill,  near  Biggleswade, 
John  Lee,  of  Colworth,  near  Bedford,  Robert  Moore,  of  Kempston, 
near  Bedford,  Philip  Hunt,  of  Bedford,  James  Webster,  of  Meppershall, 
near  Shefford,  George  Cardale,  of  Ampthill,  and  George  Owsley 
Fenwick,  of  Kempston,  all  justices,  to  be  visitors  of  the  gaol  and  new 
hou.ses  of  correction,  pursuant  to  the  act  passed  in  the  last  session  of 
parliament  for  consolidating  and  amending  the  laws  relating  to  prisons. 

28th  April.  Order  at  Quarter  Sessions  upon  the  application  of  the  114 
Reverend  George  Nelson  Kerr,  rector  of  Tibrooke,  by  virtue  of  an  Act 
40  Geo.  III.,  inlitled  "An  Act  for  dividing,  allotting  and  inclosing  the 
common  and  o]ien  fields,  meadows,  commonable  lands  and  waste 
grounds  within  the  parish  of  Tilbrooke,  in  the  county  of  Bedford;" 
and  upon  proof  of  notice  of  such  application  in  the  London  Gazette 
and  Northampton  Mercury,  appointing  iJenjamin  Welstead  and 
Thomas  Bloodworth,  of  Kimbolton,  together  with  a  third  person  to 
act  as  arbitrators  for  ascertaining  the  price  of  a  Winchester  bushel  of 
wheat  for  the  last  21  years;  and  in  case  such  average  price  shall 
exceed  the  price  set  forth  by  the  commissioners  by  the  value  of  3d., 
the  yearly  corn  rent  payable  by  virtue  of  the  said  Act  is  to  be 
increased  or  diminished  in  proportion. 

14th  July.  A  similar  order  upon  the  application  of  the  Reverend  124 
George  Cardale,  rector  of  Miilirooke,  by  virtue  of  an  Act  3o  Geo.  III., 
intitled  "  An  Act  for  dividing  and  inclosing  the  open  and  common 
fields,  common  meadows,  commonable  lands,  common  warren  and 
waste  grounds  within  the  parish  of  IMilbrooke,"  appointing  Thomas 
Gastelow  and  Chailes  Austin,  of  Ampthill,  arbitrators. 

14tli  -Inly.     Order  at   Quarter  Sessions  by  Benjamin   Welstead,  Thomas    125 
lUood worth    and    William   Alexander  Pi-ppercorn,    of  St.    Neots,    that 
they  have  ascertained  the  price  of  a   Winchester  bushel  of  wheat  for 
the  space  of  21  years  to  be  9s.  4d.,  which   average   price  is  more  than 
ihe  average  price  set  forth  in  the  award  made  by  the  commissioners  to 


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the  value  of  3d.  and  upwards.  It  is  therefore  ordered  that  the  yearly- 
tithe  rent  of  ,£210  payable  to  the  rector  of  Tilbvooke  shall  be  increased 
to  £330  2s.   2d.     (See  also  No.  463.) 

12''  12th  July.  Order  at  Quarter  Sessions  hold  for  the  town  of  Bedford,  in 
pursuance  of  an  act  passed  in  the  last  session  of  parliament,  entitled 
"An  Act  for  amending  an  act  of  the  last  session  of  Parliament  relating 
to  the  building,  repairing  and  enlarging  of  ceitain  gaols  and  houses  of 
correction,  and  for  procuring  information  as  to  the  state  of  all  other 
gaols  and  houses  of  correction  in  England  and  Wales."  It  is  ordered 
that  a  contract  be  entered  into  by  the  town  justices  of  the  peace  with 
those  of  the  county  for  the  support  ami  maintenance  of  all  prisoners 
committed  to  the  gaol  from  the  town  of  Bedford. 

128  14th  July.     Order  at  Quarter  Sessions  for  the  county  with   reference   to 

the  preceding  order  ;  it  is  ordered  that  such  contract  be  entered  into, 
and  that  the  visiting  justices  do  ascertain  the  cost  of  maintaining  the 
town  prisoners  per  head,  including  all  expences  attending  the  same  for 
the  last  seven  years,  and  that  they  report  the  same  to  this  court, 
together  with  their  opinion  of  what  will  be  a  proper  remuneration  to 
be  paid  by  the  justices  to  the  treasurer  of  this  county  for  the  support 
and  maintenance  of  the  prisoners. 

129  14th  July.     Order  at  Quarter  Sessions  finding    the  average    price   of  a 

Winchester  bushel  of  good  marketable  wheat  for  14  years  last  jjast  to 
be  9s.  6;^d.  And  that  the  amount  of  all  future  payments  of  the 
respective  yearly  rents  to  be  paid  by  virtue  of  the  Flitton  and 
Polluxhill  Enclosure  Act  to  the  vicar  of  PuUoxhill  for  the  next  14 
years  is,  by  virtue  of  the  said  act,  to  be  equal  in  value  to  the  several 
(quantities  of  wheat  in  the  second  column  of  a  schedule  annexed  ;  the 
amount  of  such  respective  yearly  rents  is  set  forth  in  the  fourth  column 
of  that  schedule. 

130  Schedule  relating  to  the  above  order  giving  names  of  proprietors. 

136  20th  October.  Order  at  Quarter  Sessions  that  the  Reverend  Dr.  IMoore 
and  tlie  Reverend  Dr.  Hunt,  two  justices  of  the  peace,  be  empowered 
to  contract  with  the  justices  of  the  peace  of  the  town  for  the  support 
and  maintenance  in  the  gaol  and  houses  of  correction  of  all  prisoners 
committed  thereto  from  the  town  of  Bedford,  upon  such  terms  as  shall 
be  agreed  upon  by  them,  it  appearing  in  the  report  of  the  visiting 
justices  that  the  expences  of  each  prisoner  will  not  amount  to  9s.  per 
week,  and  that  on  the  making  of  such  contract  every  prisoner  who 
would  otherwise  be  iujprisoned  in  the  town  shall  be  removed  to  the 
county  prison.  In  pursuance  of  which  order  it  is  agreed  between  the 
above  mentioned  justices  for  the  county  and  Thomas  Kidman,  mayor 
of  Bedford,  and  Francis  Green,  justices  for  the  town,  that  the  treasurer 
of  the  town  do  pay  to  the  treasurer  of  the  county,  at  every  quarter 
sessions  of  the  peace,  the  sum  of  8s.  per  week  for  each  jirisoner,  which 
shall  be  regulated  I'mm  time  to  time  according  to  the  average  cost  per 
head  of  supj^jrling  all  the  prisoners  in  the  gaols  of  the  said  county. 
(See  also  ^o.  137.) 


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20th  October.     Order  at  Quarter  Sessions  by  the  justices,  that  the  male   140 
and    female  prisoners  in  the  gaol  and  old   House  of  Correction  shall 
be  confined  in  separate  wards.     The  male  prisoners  shall  be  divided 

into  five  classes. 

First.  Debtors  and  prisoners  committed  for  contempt  of  court  on  civil 
process. 

Second  and  Third.     Convicted  prisoners. 

Fourth  and  Fifth.     Those  committed  for  trial. 

Such  prisoners  to  be  assigned  to  either  of  these  classes  of  prisoners, 
convicted  or  committed  respectively,  as  to  the  visiting  magistrates 
shall  seem  meet ;  regard  being  always  had  to  the  character  and 
conduct  of  the  prisoners,  and  the  nature  of  their  offence. 

The  female  prisoners  in  the  said  gaol  and  old  House  of  Correction  shall  be 
divided  into  three  classes. 

First.  Debtors  and  persons  committed  for  contempt  of  court  on  civil 
process. 

Second.     Prisoners  convicted. 

Third.     Prisoners  committed  for  trial. 

That  in  the  new  House  of  Correction  of  this  county,  the  male  and  female 
prisoners  shall  be  confined  in  separate  wards  or  parts  of  the  house. 

The  male  prisoners  shall  be  divided  into  five  classes. 

First  and  Second.  Prisoners  convicted  ;  who  may  be  put  into  either  of 
such  classes  as  to  the  visiting  magistrates  may  seem  meet,  regard  being 
had  to  the  character  and  conduct  of  the  prisoners,  and  the  nature  of 
their  offence. 

Third  and  Fourth.  Prisoners  committed  for  trial.  Such  prisoners  may  be 
put  into  either  of  these  classes,  as  to  the  visiting  magistrates  may 
seem  meet ;  regard  being  had  to  the  character  and  conduct  of  the 
prisoner,  and  the  nature  of  his  offence. 

Fifth.     Vagrants. 

The  female  prisoners  in  the  new  House  of  Correction  shall  be  divided  into 
two  classes. 

First  and  Second.  Prisoners  convicted.  The  prisoners  to  be  put  into 
either  such  classes  as  to  the  visiting  magistrates  shall  seem  meet ; 
regard  being  had  to  their  character  and  conduct,  and  the  nature  of  their 
offence.  Vagrants  shall  be  assigned  to  one  or  the  other  of  these 
classes,  as  the  visiting  magistrates  in  their  discretion  shall  see  meet. 

20th  July.     Declaration  by  the  m.agistrates,  acting  for  the  hundreds  of  144 
Barford,    Stodden    and    Willey,    assembled    at    the    Wheat    Sheaf   at 
Harrold,  that  they  recommend  William  Hardwick,  of  liiseley  to  be  a 
chief    constable    for    the    hundred    of    Stodden,    in    the    place    of 
Richard  Gell,  deceased. 

22nd  January.     Conviction    of  James  Horn,  of  Clophill,  for  an  offence   157 
against  the  condition  of  a  recognisance  entered  into  by  him    on   his 
obtaining  a  licence  to  sell  all  beer  or  other  excisable  liipiors  by  retail  ; 
fined  £5  and  19s.   6d.  costs. 


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158  31st  August.  Conviction  of  Samuel  Foxley,  labourer,  for  having  ridden 
along  the  turnpike  road,  leading  from  Bedford  to  Woburn,  upon  a 
"waggon  loaded  with  coals  and  drawn  by  three  horses,  and  having  no 
person  on  foot  or  horseback  to  guide  the  same  ;  fined  25s. 

456  7th  June.     Certificate  that  a  certain  part  of  a  common  highway,  situated 

within  the  parish  of  Apsley  Guise,  extending  from  the  boundary  of  the 
parish  of  Salford,  near  to  a  certain  place  called  Salford  Ford  to  the 
parish  church  of  the  parish  of  Apsley  Guise,  3630  yards  long  and 
22  feet  wide,  has  been  repaired. 

457  14th  July.     Certificate  that  a  certain  part  of  a  highway  leading  from  the 

village  of  Barton  to  the  village  of  Shitlington,  called  the  Shitlington 
balk,  otherwise  called  Higham  balk,  situated  in  the  parish  of 
Shitlington,  1100  yards  long  and  20  feet  wide,  has  been  repaired. 

458  Nth   November.     Certificate  that  the  justices  having  viewed  a  certain 

common  and  public  bridge  called  Harrold  Bridge,  lying  over  the  River 
Ouze  and  in  the  common  King's  highway,  leading  fiora  Bedford  to 
Wellingborough  in  the  county  of  Northampton,  one  part  of  which 
bridge  is  situated  in  the  parish  of  Carlton,  and  the  other  part  in  the 
parish  of  Wellington,  do  find  that  the  part  which  lies  in  the  parish  of 
Carlton  has  been  repaired. 

459  10th   July.      Report    of    Robert    Edmonds,    of    Bough  ton    House,     and 

William  Yorke,  of  Thrapston,  in  the  county  of  Northampton,  that  the 
former  having  been  one  of  the  commissioners  appointed  by  the 
Act  40,  Geo.  III.,  intitled  "  An  Act  for  dividing,  allotting,  and 
"  inclosing  the  common  and  open  fields,  meadows,  commonable  lands, 
"  and  waste  grounds,  within  tho  parish  of  Tilbrooke  in  the  county  of 
"  Bedford";  and  the  latter  having  been  clerk  to  the  said  commissioners, 
that  they  were  directed  to  ascertain  from  the  London  Gazette  the 
average  price  of  a  Winchester  bushel  of  wheat  during  the  term  of 
twenty-one  years,  and  what  quantity  of  wheat  at  that  price  X210 
would  purchase  ;  which  sum  was  fixed  to  be  payable  to  the  rector  of 
Tilbrook.  They  have  ascertained  the  price  of  a  bushel  of  wheat  to  be 
5s.  ll^d.  at  which  price  the  said  sum  of  £210  would  purchase 
707  bushels,  2—  pecks  of  wheat.  They  also  state  that  on  referring  to 
the  award,  they  find  that  instead  of  707  bushels  and  2~^  pecks, 
70  bushels,  2j-'g-  pecks  was  inserted,  which  was  an  error. 

461  22nd  March.  Report  of  C.  Bevan,  Civil  Engineer,  on  the  bridge  and 
causeway  near  St.  Neots  and  on  the  effect  of  the  same  on  the  height  of 
the  floods. 

Gentlemen, 

In  compliance  with  the  instructions  received  on  the  4th  instant,  I  have 
examined  the  bridge  and  causeway  leading  fwm  St.  Neots  to  Eaton, 
both  in  regard  to  the  waterway  for  the  discharge  of  flood  waters,  and  to 
the  road  way  for  the  accommodation  of  the  public,  and  submit  the 
following  as  my  report. 

In  the  ordinary  state  of  the  river,  the  water  passes  through  the  three  large 
arches  of  the  bridge  ;  the  transverse  section  or  area  occupied  by  the 
water  in  that  state  amounts  to  558  square  feet.  In  times  of  flood, 
when  the  water  is  of  sufficient  height  to  How  over  the  low  part  of  the 


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road  at  Eaton  Ford,  at  which  time  it  is  about  3|  feet  above  the 
ordinary  height,  the  aggregate  capacity  of  the  arches  occupied  by  the 
vater  at  the  bridge  and  under  the  causeway  amounts  to  1916  square 
feet ;  this  limited  space  when  compared  with  the  extensive  district  of 
drainage  to  supply  the  flood,  is  sufficient  to  enable  me  to  pronounce  the 
waterway  defective,  and  this  opinion  is  conformed  by  the  observed 
difterence  of  level  between  the  surface  of  the  water  on  the  two  sides  of 
the  bridge  in  times  of  flood  ;  and  my  opinion  is,  that  this  defect  should 
be  remedied  by  additions  to  the  present  waterway. 

My  particular  attention  having  been  called  to  the  arch  (or  tunnel)  which 
discharges  the  water  from  Eaton  Ford,  I  think  it  necessary  to  observe, 
that  when  the  water  rises  about  four  feet  above  the  ordinary  state  of 
the  river,  part  of  the  flood  water  passes  over  the  road  out  of  the  general 
valley,  and  unites  with  the  local  drainage  of  the  place  to  pass  through 
this  arch,  which  is  of  considerable  length,  and  constructed  upon 
defective  principles  ;  if  it  had  been  made  of  proper  cylindrical  shape, 
and  of  the  present  diameter,  its  power  of  discharge  would  have  been 
more  than  dcnible  of  what  it  now  is  ;  and  in  addition  to  this  defect  of 
shape,  there  is  a  bank  of  earth  in  the  line  of  the  current  occupying 
more  than  half  the  section  of  the  arch,  so  as  to  render  the  velocity 
much  less  than  it  otherwise  would  be.  There  are  similar  banks  of 
earth,  and  willows  standing  in  the  line  of  some  of  the  other  flood 
arches  obstructing  the  free  passage  of  the  water,  and  which  ought  to  be 
removed. 

The  flood  arches  are  all  too  shallow,  and  may  at  a  few  pounds  expence  be 
deepened  on  an  average  at  least  two  feet,  thereby  producing  a  new  and 
effective  waterway  of  300  square  feet,  or  more  than  equal  to  half  the 
present  ordinary  waterway  of  the  river. 

The  river  arches  are  also  too  shallow,  and  may  at  a  moderate  expence  be 
deepened  about  2  feet,  and  thereby  add  200  feet  more  of  most  effective 
waterway.  The  expense  of  these  improvements,  including  the 
necessary  security  to  the  abutments  of  the  Flood  arches  may  be  £140. 

In  ray  opinion,  it  is  also  desirable  to  construct  four  new  tunnels  of  12  feet 
diameter  through  the  causeway  between  the  seventh  and  eighth  of  the 
present  arches,  giving  a  further  addition  of  412  feet  waterway;  the 
expense  of  which  I  estimate  at  £230.  Or  in  lieu  of  these  tunnels,  four 
rectangular  apertures  may  be  naade  with  upright  walls  and  cast  iron 
bearers,  producing  an  opening  of  624  square  feet,  transverse  section, 
the  expense  of  which  I  estimate  at  the  sum  of  £250. 

There  is  another  very  important  consideration  relative  to  some  regulation  of 
the  passage  of  the  water  in  times  of  flood,  rendered  more  necessary  of  late 
years  from  the  great  improvements  in  drainage  in  the  upper  districts  of 
the  country  ;  whereby  the  floods  descend  in  much  less  time  than  here- 
tofore, so  as  to  overtake  and  join  the  local  floods  of  this  district,  which 
would  otherwise  have  passed  off  towards  the  sea  before  the  great  body  of 
tq)land  waters  had  arrived.  On  this  part  of  the  (piestion  there  are  two 
other  interests  intimately  involved,  namely,  the  occupiers  of  mills  upon 


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the  river  and  the  owners  of  the  navigation  ;  both  of  these  to  a  certain 
degree,  find  it  necessary  to  keep  up  the  head  of  water  in  the  river,  and 
have  an  established  right  so  to  do. 

In  the  neighbourhood  of  populous  towns,  it  is  my  opinion  that  an  earlier 
preparation  of  the  river  to  receive  the  accumulated  quantities  known  to 
be  advancing,  might  be  adopted  with  small  injury  to  the  mills  and 
navigation,  and  possibly  terms  might  be  agreed  to  between  the  parties 
interested,  to  be  acted  upon  in  particular  cases  so  as  to  relieve  the  town 
of  St.  Neots  at  a  moderate  expense.  There  may  be  some  difficulty  in 
providing  suitable  and  equitable  funds  to  compensate  for  real  injury 
occasioned  by  these  regulations,  but  when  the  number  of  persons  that 
would  be  relieved  by  the  regulation  is  balanced  against  the  expense  of 
accomplishing  the  object  desired,  little  doubt  can  be  entertained  of 
obtaining  the  funds  required. 

In  tracing  the  height  of  the  large  flood  in  November  last,  it  is  obvious  that 
the  solid  parapet  walls  on  the  lower  part  of  the  causeway,  contributed 
to  the  excessive  height  of  the  flood,  and  if  reinstated  on  their  original 
plan  may  hereafter  have  the  same  effect,  and  also  be  exposed  to  similar 
destruction  ;  whereas  if  these  fences  had  been  open  palisades,  the  free 
waterway  would  have  been  greater  by  375  square  feet,  or  more  than 
equal  to  one  of  the  large  arches  of  the  river.  Instead  therefore  of 
restoring  these  fences  in  their  former  solid  form,  as  the  county  must  be 
interested  in  their  durability,  I  would  advise  them  to  open  fences  ;  and 
in  a  situation  like  that  in  question  it  is  my  opinion  that  cast  iron  would 
be  the  most  economical.  The  Eaton  Ford  water  may  in  part  be  relieved 
by  a  Flood  way  over  the  road  on  the  north  side  of  the  present  arch,  by 
reducing  the  height  of  the  road  and  adjoining  land  from  6  to  18  inches, 
at  a  probable  expence  of  12  or  15/-.  The  position  of  some  of  the  fences  in 
the  meadows  have  a  tendency  to  obstruct  the  passage  of  the  water,  and 
add  to  its  height  and  duration  ;  part  of  these  would  be  better  open  post 
and  rail  fences.  The  diff"erence  of  expence  between  a  good  oak  fence 
and  maintaining  it  in  perpetuity,  and  that  of  a  quick  or  thorn  hedge, 
estimating  the  value  of  the  ground  occupied  by  the  latter  is  but 
trifling  ;  depending  in  some  measure  upon  the  relative  price  of  land 
and  timber,  but  may  in  this  situation  be  estimated  in  the  ratio  of  6 
to  5.  A  few  banks  and  trees  of  no  great  value  in  the  line  of  the 
current  might  be  removed  to  give  greater  passage  to  the  flood. 

The  question  of  widening  the  present  narrow  and  dangerous  bridge,  I  have 
in  part  considered.  Provided  suitable  funds  could  be  obtained,  the 
best  remedy  would  be  that  of  a  new  bridge,  whereby  double  waterway 
might  be  secured,  and  double  room  provided  for  the  passage  of  the 
public. 

The  road  way  upon  the  present  bridge  may  be  wiilened  by  projecting  foot 
paths  on  each  side.  I  have  calculated  the  expence  of  such  au  addition 
by  a  foot  path  of  three  and  a  half  feet  in  width  on  each  side,  giving 
the  benefit  of  the  space  upon  which  the  parapets  now  stand  to  the 
carriage  way,  and  rendering  it  sufficient  with  moderate  care  for  the  safe 
passage  of  carriages  in  all  ])art.s,  amounting  to  the  sum  of  X700. 

I  have  also  calculated  that  an  addition  of  10  feet  may  lie  made  to  the 
southern  side  of  the  bridge  by  three  cast  iron  arches  for  a  sum  not 
exceeding  £200,  antl  probably  for  a  less  sum. 


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2nd  April.  Letter  dated,  Eynesbury,  St.  N'eots,  from  the  clerk  to  the  462 
trustees  of  the  turnpike  roail  leailing  from  Biggleswade  to  Alcoiibury 
Hill  and  branches  to  Mr.  Bevan.  Stating  that  an  adjourned  special 
meeting  of  the  above  trustees  is  appointed  to  be  held  at  the  Cock  Inn 
in  Eaton  Socon,  for  the  further  consideration  of  the  business  referred 
to  in  the  annexed  report  (No.  461),  and  to  adopt  measures  to  widen 
the  bridge  and  carry  off  the  waters  in  times  of  exceosive  flood. 

10th  January.     Accounts  of  Thomas  Elger  for  work  done  at  the  County   464 
Gaol. 

10th    January.     Account    of   John    Penn    for   £26    3s.   6|d.    for   extras   480 
supplied  to  the  new  House  of  Correction. 

10th  January.  Account  of  Thomas  Elger  for  £320  IGs.  8|d.  for  various  Ago 
pieces  of  work,  viz.  :  For  sundry  works  performed  at  the  County  Gaol 
at  Bedford,  in  the  erection  of  a  new  tread  mill,  building  a  loft, 
a  new  laundry  and  wash  house,  a  new  day  room  and  soup  kitchen  in 
the  old  House  of  Correction  ward,  and  sundry  alterations  and 
improvements  in  various  parts  of  the  building  during  the  year  1823  ; 
likewise  in  the  erection  of  two  new  lobbies  and  entrances  to  the 
county  hall,  lead  cisterns,  stone  staircases  with  new  doors,  windows, 
floors,  &c. 

10th   January.     Account   of   Thomas   Elger  for   the   following   sums    for   4^04. 
making    new    entrances   at  the  County  Hall  : — Carpenter  and  joiner, 
£109  18s.  lOd.;  bricklayer,  £94  7s.  ll^d.;  stone  mason,  £60  16s.  Jld.; 
ironmonger,  £17  9s.  lOfd.;  plumber,  painter,  and  glazier,  £40  lis.  4fd.; 
sundries,   £2   8s. 


14th  January.  Account  (;f  Charles  Bailey  for  £4  13s.  for  the  repair  of 
Barford  Bridge. 

14th  January.  Account  of  James  Ladd  for  £10  9s.  5d.  fur  repairing  the 
damage  done  l)y  ihe  flood  at  Tempsford  Bridge. 

14tli  January.  Account  of  Thomas  xMillingtou  for  £115  3s.  6d.  amongst 
which  are  the  following  items,  viz.  :  — 

Gth  January.  To  preparing  drawings  of  plans,  elevations,  &c.,  of  the 
alterations  proposed  to  be  made  in  the  Court  House  at  Bedford, 
&« £3  3s! 

8th  January.  Preparing  u  set  of  drawings  of  the  new  mill  building, 
wash  house,  laundry,  and  sundry  alt(!rations  about  to  be  made  in  the 
County  Gaol,  &c £5  5^ 

14th  January.  Consulting  with  i\Ir.  Scrivener  respecting  the  progress  of 
the  brickwork  for  Ih'oom  Iron  Bridge.  Attending  at  the  new  House 
of  Correction  and  examining  into  the  questions  raised  respecting  the 
disadvantages  of  the  tread  mill,  &c.  ;  the  lining  the  roofs  of  the'^cells 
to  prevent  (hun[)iicss  ;  the  mill  at  the  County  Gaol,  and  the  alterations 
proposed  at  the  Sessions  House,  &c [no  sum  'dvenl 


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21st  February.  Hearing  that  Broom  Iron  Bridge  has  arrived  at  Newport, 
made  contract  with  Messrs.  Keeps,  wharfingers,  at  Linford,  for  the 
carriage  of  the  bridge  to  Bedford,  &c 1 2s. 

15th  to  18th  March.  Attending  at  Broom  to  give  directions  about  fixing 
the  iron  bridge,  finishing  the  whole,  and  having  the  road  made  over  it 
and  open  to  the  public,  &c £9  9s. 

31st  March.  "Writing  to  Messrs.  Keeps,  at  Linford,  on  the  subject  of  one 
of  the  iron  ribs  having  been  broken,  and  making  estimate  of  the 
expense  of  painting  the  iron  work  of  Broom  Bridge  stone  colour, 
&c 7s.  6d. 

8th  April.  Attending  magistrates  about  ceiling  and  ventilating  cells  in 
new  House  of  Correction,  attending  at  the  new  House  of  Correction 
and  getting  ventilators,  patent  slate  slips,  and  ronian  cement  fillets  put 
on  the  outside,  and  three  of  the  insides  of  the  cells  in  the  women's 
ward  lined  with  double  fir  lathe  and  plaster  ceilings,  &c...<£7   17s.   6d. 

15th  July.  Cubing  and  casting  out  the  dimensions  of  work  done  by 
Mr.  Newman  to  Tempsford  Bridge  and  Mr.  Edwards  to  Washbrooke 
liridge  at  Biggleswade;  wrote  to  Mr.  Giles  respecting  Clay  Bridge, 
&c [no  sum  given] 

17th  July.  Mr.  Newman  having  represented  Tempsford  Bridge  to  be  in  a 
dangerous  state,  I  was  directed  to  examine  the  Bridge  and  report  to 
the  justices     [no  sum] 

18th  &  19th  July.  After  inspecting  the  mill  and  works  at  the  gaol  and 
leaving  full  directions  about  fixing  the  sack  "  housting  "  tackle  and 
removing  the  former  dressing  machine  from  its  old  situation  into  the 
new  mill,  proceeded  to  Tempsford  to  inspect  the  bridge  and  found  it 
in  a  secure  state,  &c £15   15s. 

29th  July.  Drawing  up  a  long  detailed  report  accompanied  by  a  plan  on 
the  present  state  of  Tempsford  Bridge,  &c £3   13s.   6d. 

18th  September.  Hearing  from  Mr.  Giles  that  the  Ivel  Navigation 
Commissioners  would  do  the  needful  amendments  to  Clay  Bridge  at 
their  own  expense,  wrote  to  appoint  a  meeting  place     4s.   6d. 

24th  September.  Conferring  with  INIr.  Giles  on  the  alterations  he  proposed 
makin"  to  Clay  Bridge  in  consequence  of  the  additional  ipiantity  of 
water  thrown  into  the  stream  by  the  Ivel  Navigation,  Sic 7s.   6d. 

26th  September.  Writing  to  inform  Messrs.  Keeps,  at  Linford,  that  unless 
they  allowed  the  expenses  for  the  broken  iron  rib  of  Broom  Bridge,  I 
could  not  pass  their  bill 3s. 

496  14lh  January.     Account  of  Thomas  Elger  for  £39  13s.   7d.  for  repairing 

the  damage  done  to  Barford  Bridge  by  the  fiood. 

497  14th  January.     Detailed  account  of  John  Penn  for  £322   18s.  2d.  for 

erecting  a  new  tread  mill  in  the  County  Gaol. 

499    14lh  January.     Account  of  Thomas  Elger  for  £10  7s.  8 J.  for  work  done 
at  the  County  Gaol. 


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24th  January.     Account  of  John  Welch  for  =61   14s.  for  repairing  an  arch    529 
in  the  road  in  tlie  Luton  district  and  in  the  parish  of  Clophill. 

2nd  March.     Account  of  James  Hack  (?)  junr.  for  £9    Is.   7id.   for  work    .531 
done  at  a  bridge  in  the  parisli  of  L'halgrove,  near  Hocklitfe. 

8th  March.     Account  of  Samuel  Burrows  for  £43  15s.  for  taking  up  a   532 
bridge  at  Ileadlow  in  the  parish  of  Clophill  on  the  road  from  Clophill 
to   Shefford  and    building   a    new  one   in    the  same   place    (See  also 
No.  536). 

28th  April.     Account  of  Thomas  Elger  for  £50  10s.  Bd.  for  work  done   542 
at  Tempsford  Bridge. 

28th  April.     Coroners  return  of  the  number  of  inquests  in  the  county  of   550 
Bedford  from  Michaelmas  1823  to  Easter  1824. 

28th  April.     Account  of  Thomas  Elger  for  £12  3s.   ll|d.  for  work  done   565 
at  the  County  Gaol. 

14th  July.     Account  of  John  Wing  for  £2   13s.   6id.  for  work  done  at   576 
the  County  Gaol. 

Account   of  James  Ayre  for  £38  3s.    6d.   for   work  done  at  Chalgrove   590 
Bridge. 

July.     Account  of  Richard  Labrum  for  £1    10s.  for   sand   for   repairing   601 
Hockliffe  Bridge. 

July.     Account  of  W.  Berrill,  junr.,  for  £3  3s.  for  surveying  and  making   602 
plans    of   a    bridge    in    the    parish    of    Chalgrave    and    attendance    at 
Sessions,  &c. 

8th  October.     Account  of  William  Thorpe  for  £2  5s.  for  work  done  at   606 
Clifton  Bridge. 

18th  October.     Account  of  George  Green  for  £4  8s,  O^d.  for  work  done   607 
at  Clifton  Britige. 

20th  October.     Account  of  Thomas  Elger  for  £6  8s.  2 id.  for  work  done   613 
at  the  County  (ioal. 

20th  October.     Account  of   Jacob  Lovel  for  £17  5s.  for  work  done  at   618 
Tenijjsford  Bridge. 

20th  October.     Account    of   Jcisepli  Berrill  for  £97  for  repairs  done  at   625 
Stafford  (sic)  Bridge,  i.e.  mending  walls  and  pitching  ami  repairing  the 
arches,  also  widening  the  arch  at  the  further  end  of  the  bridge. 

20th   October.     Account  of   Jos.    Berrill   for  £2    14s.    6d.    for    cleaning,    637 
pointing,  i^c,  the  Courts,  Hall,  and  -Jury  Kooms  at  the  County  Hall. 

20th  October.     Coroner's  returns  of  the  number  of  incpiests  in  the  county    640 
from  Easter  1823  to  Michaelmas  1824. 


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641    20th  October.      Account    of    Thomas    Elger    for    £31     8s.     lid.    and 
£16  8s.  2^d.  for  work  done  at  the  new  House  of  O)rrection. 

643  2nd  November.      Receipt  of  Mr.   Cliarles  Railey  for  £9  Is.  7|d.  for  work 

done  at  Chalgrove  Bridge. 

644  2nd  November.     Receipt  by  the  above  for  £50  18s.  4Jd.  for  work  done 

at  Chalgrove  Bridge. 

645  25th  December.     Return  of  the  names  and  numbers  of  the  officers  and 

non-commissioned  officers,  drummers  and  privates  of  the  Bedfordshire 
Regiment  of  Militia,  comprising  1  Colonel  (Sir  John  Osborn), 
1   Lieutenant  Colonel  (Gilpin),   1  jNIajor  (Horner),  4  Captains  (Wallis, 

Davies,    Campbell,  and    Higgins),    4   Lieutenants   (Hankins , 

Leech ,    Harrison ,    Mcrres) ,     3    Ensigns 

(Broderick,  Trephook,  Gilpin),  1  A.djutant  (Brown),  1  Surgeon  (Hyne), 
1  Paymaster  (Leech),  1  Assistant  Surgeon  (Ri.x^),  1  Quarter  Master 
(Morris),  11  Serjeants,  11  corporals,  7  drummers,  315  rank  and  file. 

646  Estimate  of   the  expences  attending   making   the  road    at    each .  end   of 

Clifton  Briilge  to  the  distance  of  300  feet,  including  "  quicking,"  fencing, 
purchase  of  ground,  &c £109   12s. 

706  1st  January.     Presentment    that  a   common    and    public    bridge  called 

Eaton  Bridge  in  the  parish  of  Eaton  Socon,  in  the  common  King's 
highway  leading  from  Bedford  to  St.  Neots,  in  the  county  of 
Huntingdon,  is  in  a  state  of  decay,  and  that  the  inhabitants  of  the 
county  of  Bedford  ought  to  repair  the  same. 

707  1st  January.      Presentment  that  there  is  a  certain  common  and  public 

bridge  called  Brondiam  Bridge  lying  over  the  river  Ouze  in  the  King's 
highway,  leading  from  the  town  of  Bedford  to  Newport  Pagnell,  in  the 
county  of  Buckingham,  one  part  of  which  lies  in  the  parish  of 
Biddcnhani,  and  the  other  in  the  parish  of  Kempston  ;  and  that  the 
part  lying  in  the  parish  of  Biddenham  is  in  a  state  of  decay,  and  ought 
to  be  repaired  by  the  inhabitants  of  the  county  of  Bedford. 

708  1st  January.     Presentment  that  there  is  a  common  and  public  bridge 

called  Barford  Bridge  over  the  river  Ouze,  leading  from  Bedford  to 
Saint  Neots,  in  the  county  of  Huntingdon,  one  part  of  which  is 
situated  in  the  parish  of  Blunham,  and  the  other  part  in  the  parish  of 
Gieat  Barford,  and  that  the  part  thereof  lying  in  the  parish  of  niunham 
is  in  a  state  of  decay,  and  that  the  iahabilants  of  tlie  county  of 
Bedford  ought  to  repair  the  same. 

709  1st  January.      Presentment  that  a   certain   common   and   pu1)lic  bridge, 

near  a  certain  cottage  called  (.'ainhoe  Cottage  in  the  parish  of  Clo[)hill, 
leading  from  the  village  of  Hayues  to  the  village  of  Up[)er  (irav(;nhurst 
is  in  a  state  of  decay,  and  tliat  the  inhabitants  of  the  county  of  Bedford 
ought  to  repair  the  same. 


1st    January.       Presentment  that  a  certain  cnnimon  anrl  public  bridge    710 
called  l!eadlo\v  hiidyc  in  the  pansh  of   Clnpliill,  leading  fioni  the  town 
Anipthill  to  the  town  of  Shellbrd,  ia  in  a  state  of  decay,  and  that  the 
inhabitants  of  the  county  of  Jiedfoiil  ouyht  to  repair  the  same. 

11th  January.      Presentment  that  a  common  and  public    bridge    called    711 
Ilarrold    Bridge,    situated    in    the    several    parishes    of   Harrold   and 
Chellington,  leading  from  the  town  of  Harrold  to  the  town  of  Bedford  is 
in  a  state  of  decay,  and  that  the  inhabitants  of  the  County  of  Bedford 
ought  to  repair  the  same. 

9th  April.  Presentment  that  there  is  a  certain  common  and  ancient  712 
King's  highway  leading  from  the  village  of  Barton  to  the  village  of 
Shitlington,  a  certain  part  thereof  called  Shitlington  Balk,  otherwise 
called  Higham  Balk,  lying  in  the  parish  of  Shitlington,  1 100  yanls  long 
and  20  feet  wide,  is  in  a  state  of  decay,  and  that  the  inhabitants  of  the 
county  of  Bedford  ought  to  repair  the  same. 

28th  April.  Presentment  that  there  is  a  certain  common  and  ancient  713 
King's  highway  leading  from  the  parish  of  Salford  to  the  parish  of 
Cranfield,  a  certain  part  whereof  situated  in  the  parish  of  Salford 
commencing  at  a  place  called  the  Moors  in  the  parish  of  Salford,  and 
ending  at  another  part  of  the  same  place  called  the  Moors,  22  yards 
long,  is  in  a  state  of  decay,  and  that  the  inhabitants  of  the  parish  of 
Salford  ought  to  repair  the  same. 

28th  April.  Presentment  that  there  is  a  certain  common  and  ancient  714 
King's  highway  leading  from  the  village  of  Cranfield  to  the  town  of 
Newport  Pagnell  in  the  county  of  liuckingham,  a  certain  part  whereof 
lying  in  the  parish  of  Cranfield,  commencing  at  a  guide  post  in  or  near 
the  village  of  Cranfield,  and  ending  at  or  near  a  wood  called  the  lower 
and  lesser  wood  in  the  parish  of  Moulsoe  in  the  County  of  Buckingham, 
2680  yards  long  and  22  feet  wide,  is  in  a  state  of  decay,  and  that  the 
inhabitants  of  the  parish  of  Cranfield  ought  to  repair  the  same. 

13th  INfay.  Presentment  that  there  is  a  certain  common  and  public  715 
bridge  called  Harrold  Bridge  lying  over  the  river  Ouze  in  the  King's 
highway,  leading  from  the  town  of  Bedford  to  the  town  of  Wellingboro' 
in  the  county  of  Northampton,  one  part  of  which  lies  in  the  parish  of 
Carlton  and  the  ether  in  the  parish  of  Chellington,  and  tiiat  the  part  of 
the  bridge  lying  in  the  parish  of  Carlton  is  in  a  state  of  decay,  and 
that  the  iid)al)itants  of  the  county  of  Bedford  ought  to  repair  the  same. 

14th  July.  Presentment  that  there  is  a  certain  common  and  ancient  716 
King's  highway  leading  from  the  village  of  Streatley  to  the  turnpike 
road  leading  from  the  hamlet  of  Silsoe  towards  the  town  of  Luton,  a 
certain  jiart  whereof  in  the  parish  of  Streatley,  commencing  at  the 
Church  Creeen  in  the  said  parish  to  the  turnpike  road  aforesaid, 
containing  in  length  4620  feet  or  thereabouts,  arid  of  the  breadth  of 
30  feet  or  thereabouts,  is  in  a  state  of  decay,  and  that  the  inhabitants 
of  the  parish  of  Streatley  ought  to  repair  the  same. 


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717    14th  July.     Presentment    that   there  is  a  certain  cornmnn  and  ancient 

King's  highway  commonly  called  Eunloy  Lan<>  Road,  leading  out  of 
another  highway  which  loads  from  Luton  to  the  village  of  Market 
Street  in  the  parish  of  Caddington,  towards  a  certain  other  highway 
which  lead  from  the  town  of  Luton  to  the  town  of  Dunstable,  a  certain 
part  of  the  first  above  mentioned  highway  lying  in  the  parish  of 
Caddington,  commencing  at  the  south-east  corner  of  a  close  belonging 
to  Samuel  Crawley,  in  the  parish  of  Luton,  called  Farley  Green  Close, 
and  extending  to  the  south-west  corner  of  a  certain  other  close 
belonging  to  Samuel  Crawley,  in  the  parish  of  Luton,  called  Little 
Castle  Croft,  1177  yards  long  and  25  feet  Avide,  and  that  the 
inhabitants  of  the  parish  of  Caddington  ought  to  repair  the  same. 
The  inhabitants  of  Caddington  having  objected  to  the  said  order,  it  was 
referred  to  the  next  General  Quarter  Sessions  of  the  peace. 

735  14th  July.  Presentment  as  to  Runley  Lane  Road  described  above. 
A  certain  part  of  the  road  in  the  township  of  Luton,  commencing  at  the 
north-east  corner  of  a  close  of  Samuel  Crawley,  in  the  parish  of 
Caddington,  called  the  Three  Cornered  Field,  and  extending  to  the 
south-west  corner  of  a  close  belonging  to  Samuel  Crawley,  in  the 
said  parish  of  Luton,  called  the  Thirty  Acres,  1850  yards  long  and  25 
feet  wide,  is  in  a  state  of  decay,  and  the  inhabitants  of  the  township  of 
Luton  ought  to  repair  the  same, 

737  17th  October.     Presentment  that  there  is  a  certain  common  and  ancient 

King's  highway  leading  from  the  village  of  Cranfield  to  the  town  of 
Woburn,  a  certain  part  whereof  lying  within  the  parish  of  Aspley 
Guise,  extending  from  the  limits  or  boundary  of  the  parish  of  Salford 
near  a  certain  place  called  Salford  Ford  to  the  parish  church  of  the 
parish  of  Aspley  Guise,  3630  yards  long  and  22  feet  wide,  is  in  a  state 
decay,  and  that  the  inhabitants  of  Aspley  Guise  ought  to  repair  the 
same. 

738  20th  October.      Presentment  that  there  is  a  certain  common  and  ancient 

King's  highway  leading  out  of  a  certain  common  and  ancient  King's 
highway,  leading  from  the  town  of  Luton  to  the  village  of  Market 
Street  in  the  parish  of  Caddington,  towards  a  certain  other  common  and 
ancient  King's  highway,  leading  from  the  town  of  Luton  to  the  village 
of  Harpenden,  and  that  a  certain  part  of  the  first  mentioned  highway 
being  in  the  hamlet  of  West  Hyde  in  the  parish  of  Luton,  commencing 
at  the  north-west  corner  of  a  close  of  Samuel  Crawley  in  the  said  parish 
of  Luton,  called  the  Twelve  Acres,  and  ending  at  the  south-east  corner 
of  a  close  of  the  Marquis  of  Bute,  in  the  parish  of  Luton,  called  Dell 
Field,  where  the  same  enters  the  said  highway  leading  from  Luton  to 
Harpenden,  1078  yards  long  and  25  feet  broad,  is  in  a  state  of  decay, 
and  that  the  inhabitants  of  West  Hyde  ought  to  repair  the  same. 

739  14th   July.       Statement    by    Thomas   Barber   that    he    is    possessed    of 

suiHcient  estate  (namely  the  rectory  of  Houghton  Conquest)  to  qualify 
him  to  act  as  a  Justice  of  the  Peace. 

743    14th  January.      Letter  from  "  Jeramy  "  Willis  to  Lord .      "Mr. 

Samuel  Reeve,  one  of  the  surveyors  of  the  road  of  Leighton  Bussard, 
requested  I  would  see  your  lordship  on  the  subject  of  a  letter  he  wrote 


2.S5 

relative  to  a  bridge  blown  down  at  a  flood  on  the  31st  of  October  last, 
at  the  end  of  the  town  of  Leighton  Bussard,  standing  upon  the  stream 
dividing  the  counties  of  Buckingham  and  Bedford.  I  understood  the 
object  to  be  if  the  court  of  Quarter  Sessions  will  assist  in  rebuilding 
the  bridge." 

Letter  from  John  Garrard  to  W.  Wilshire,  stating  that  he  has  ordered  the  744 
measures  for  the  inspector  of  weights  and  measures  at  the  instance  of 
the  magistrates  for  the  hundreds  of  Barford,  Stodden,  and  Willey,  for 
the  use  of  the  inspector  ;  and  asking  that  the  opinion  of  some  one  of 
the  law  officers  of  the  crown  be  had  as  to  whether  the  power  given  to 
the  magistrates  to  appoint  their  inspector  does  not  impute  to  extend  to 
empower  the  justices  in  sessions  to  order  payment  for  those  measures. 

26th  April.  Letter  dated  at  Moulson,  from  John  Bennett  to  the  746 
Reverend  Edmund  Burk  Lewis,  at  Toddington.  "  I  have  taken  the 
liberty  of  writing  to  you  upon  the  subject'  of  a  piece  of  road  leading 
from  Cranfield  to  Newport  Pagnell,  the  proper  communication  from 
thence  to  Marston,  Ampthill,  Bedford,  &c.,  which  is  completely 
impassable  and  a  great  public  evil;  I  should  be  sorry  to  interfere 
improperly,  but  have  been  desired  by  Mr.  Beard,  Cranfield,  to  make  a 
proper  complaint  to  you  personally,  but  have  not  had  a  convenient 
opportunity.  I  certainly  don't  want  my  name  to  be  put  in  the  brunt  (?) 
of  an  indictment,  but  it  would  certainly  be  a  great  public  benefit  if  it 
could  be  accomplished  with  your  concurrence." 

17th  November.     Letter  dated  at  Bedford,  from  Thomas   Elger   to    the    751 
justices  of  the  county  of  Bedford. 

"  I  believe  the  probable  expence  of  my  work  at  Clay  Bridge  will  be  about 
£5,000.  I  shall  feel  obliged  to  you  to  order  your  treasurer  to  pay 
me  half  that  amount  on  account." 

Letter  dated  at  Leighton,  from  Samuel  Reeve  to  Lord  Tavistock.  7gg 

"  As  ojie  of  the  surveyors  of  this  town,  I  beg  leave  to  inform  thee  that  an 
api)lication  will  be  matle  to  the  court  of  Quarter  Sessions  at  IJcdford 
for  the  repair  of  a  bridge  which  divides  the  counties  of  Bedford  and 
Buckingham  and  the  parishes  of  Leighton  Buzzard  and  Linslade,  which 
was  washed  down  by  the  late  calamitous  flood  ;  fearing  thy  health  may 
not  permit  thy  attendance  at  the  Sessions,  and  feeling  the  importance 
of  the  assistance  and  influence,  we  have  taken  the  liberty  of  soliciting 
that  thou  would  request  the  chairman  (W.  Wilshire,  Esq.),  with  whom 
thou  art  intimately  acquainted,  to  give  his  sanction  and  assistance  in 
promoting  the  interests  of  this  town  by  a  grant  from  the  court ;  it  is 
unquestionably  a  county  bridge.  Similar  application  will  also  be  made 
to  the  court  of  the  county  of  Buckingliam,  and  we  hope,  by  a  grant 
from  each,  the  parishes  will  be  enabled  to  compleat  the  bridge  in  a 
proper  manner,  without  being  afi"ected  much  thereby." 

17th    February.      At    a    General    Meeting    of    the    trustees    of    the    769 
Biggleswade  Turnpike  Road,  held  at  the  Ealcon  Inn,  in  St.  Neots,  the 
state  of  Saint  Neots    Bridge    was   taken   into   consideration,    both   in 
respect  of  the  road  over  it  and  also  of  the  iuterrui)tiou  occasioned  thereby 


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to  the  passage  of  the  water  through  it.  Resolved  that  a  special  general 
meeting  be  held  at  the  Cock  Inn  at  Eaton,  for  the  accommodation  of 
the  Beilfordshire  trustees,  on  Tuesday,  the  23rd  March,  for  taking  into 
more  full  consideration  the  expediency  of  calling  upon  the  magistrates 
of  the  counties  of  Huntingdon  and  Bedford  to  concur  in  such 
measures  as  may  be  necessary  for  making  the  road  safe  and  the 
drainage  secure.  And  that  in  the  mean  time  Mr.  Bevan  be  employed 
to  take  a  view  thereof  and  make  a  report  thereon. 

763  23rd  April.     At  an  Adjourned  Meeting  of  the  trustees  of  tlie  turnpike 

road  leading  from  Biggleswade  to  Alconbury  Hill,  it  was  resolved,  that 
as  they  are  impressed  with  a  strong  feeling  of  the  distresses  brought 
upon  the  inhabitants  of  the  parishes  of  Eaton  and  St.  Neots  in  conse- 
quence of  the  waters  accumulating  rapidly  to  a  great  height  at  the 
bridge  and  causeway  and  low  parts  of  the  roar]  between  Saint  Neots 
and  Eaton  Socon,  owing  to  the  insufficiency  of  the  water-way  there, 
they  are  desirous,  as  far  as  they  can  lawfully  do  so,  and  without 
injury  to  the  public  or  ])rivate  property  to  co-operate  with  the 
magistrates  of  the  two  counties  in  remedying  the  great  inconveniences 
which  arise  from  these  defects. 

764  Easter    Session.       Notice    by    Thomas    Turnham,   victualler    of    Leighton 

Bussard,  that  he  intends  to  apply  for  a  license  or  authority  to  sell  ale, 
beer,  or  other  exciseable  liquors  at  a  certain  messuage  .situate  on  the 
east  side  of  the  street,  called  the  north  end  of  Leighton  Bussard. 

765  4th    October.       Recommendation    by    the    acting    magistrates   for   the 

hundred  of  Barford  to  the  justices,  that  John  Palmer,  of  Goldington, 
within  the  hundred  of  Barford,  be  appointed  chief  constable  of  the 
hundred  of  Barford, '  in  the  room  of  the  late  George  Palmer,  chief 
constaljle. 

766  9th  October.      Notice  by  John  Mackay  that  he  intends  to  appeal  at  the 

next  General  Quarter  Sessions  against  the  appointment  Robert  Huld, 
of  Oakley,  as  surveyor  of  the  highways  for  the  parish  of  Ravensden,  as 
he  is  not  a  resident  of,  or  in  the  said  parish  of  Ravensden,  or  within 
tliree  miles  thereof,  and  that  tlicre  are  in  the  said  j)arish  other  tit  and 
proper  persons  to  serve  in  the  said  office. 


1825. 

21  31st  March.  Notice  by  Robert  Gee,  on  behalf  of  the  Master  and  Fellows 
of  Sidney  College,  Cambridge,  that  they  intend  to  appeal  against  the 
rates  or  assessments  made  for  the  relief  of  the  poor  of  the  parish  of 
Wootton. 

86  12th  January.  Order  at  Quarter  Sessions  tliat  tlie  following  justices  be 
visitors  of  the  gaol  and  houses  of  correction  within  this  county — that  is 
to  say  : — "i'homas  Philip  Weddell,  Lord  Grantham,  West  Park,  Silsoe, 
(Chairman  ;  William  Heiu'y  Whitbread,  of  Southill,  near  Biggleswade, 
Esquire  ;  John  Lee,  of  Colworth,  near  Bedford,  Esquire ;  Robert 
Moore,  of  Kempston,  near  Bedford,  D.D.  ;  Philip  Hunt,  of  Bedford, 
Doctor  of  T>aws;  James  Webster,  of  Meppershall,  near  Shefford,  Clerk  ; 
George  Car<lale,  of  Amplhill,  (jlerk  ;  and  George  Ouselcy  Eeawicke, 
Clerk  of  Kempston,  near  Bedford. 


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6th  July.     Order  at  Quarter  Sessions  nominating  the  following  justices  to    112 
be  visitors  of  the  gaol  and  houses  of  correction  : — 

Sir  Robert  Harry  IngHs,  Baronet,  Chairman,  jMilton  Bryant,  Woburn. 

WilHam  Henry  Whitbreail,  E.-quire,  8outliiil,  Biggleswade. 

John  Lee,  Esquire,  Col  worth,  Bedford. 

The  Revd.  Dr.  Moore,  Thurleigli,  Bedford. 

The  Revd.  Dr.  Hunt.  Bedford. 

The  Revd.  George  ('ardale,  iNIillbrook,  Ampthill. 

The  Revd.  George  Owsley  Fenwicke,  Kenipston,  l>edford. 

The  Revd.  Thomas  Barber,  Houghton,  Ampthill. 

The  Revd.  James  Reed,  Eversholt,  Woburn. 

The  Revd.  John  Hull,  Stondon,  Hitchin. 

6th  October.     Order  at  Quarter  Sessions.       A   similar   list  omitting   the    ng 
Revd.  John  Hull. 

17th  February.  Notice  by  two  justices  of  the  peace,  that  they  have  upon  123 
view  found  that  a  public  foot  way,  of  the  length  of  500  yards  or 
thereabouts,  leading  out  of  the  Church  road,  of  the  parish  of  Kempston, 
at  the  vicarage  in  a  north-west  direction  over  the  first  allotment,  late  of 
James  Aspinwall,  clerk,  deceased,  for  tithes  within  the  said  jjarish  of 
Kerajiston,  and  now  of  George  Owsley  Fenwicke,  vicar  of  the  said 
parish,  and  now  divided  into  three  distinct  closes,  to  that  part  of  a 
road  in  the  said  parish  of  Kempston,  called  the  Bromhanr  Road,  that 
adjoins  the  said  foot  path  ;  and  also  a  certain  other  foot  path,  lately 
used  on  sufferance  as  a  public  foot  path,  of  the  length  of  190  yards  or 
thereabouts,  leading  from  the  above  described  foot  path  about  the 
centre  thereof,  and  proceeding  in  a  westerly  direction  across  the  said 
fiist  allotment  to  the  said  road  calleil  the  Bromham  Road  ;  and  also  a 
certain  other  foot  path,  lately  used  on  sufferance  as  a  public  foot  path, 
of  the  length  of  300  yards  or  thereabouts,  leading  from  a  point  near 
the  commencement  of  the  first  described  foot  path,  nearly  in  a  north- 
westerly direction  acioss  the  said  first  allotment  to  the  said  road  called 
Brondiam  Road  ;  which  said  public  footways,  so  used  and  particularly 
ilescribed  in  the  plan  hereto  annexed,  are  unnecessary,  and  may 
be  conveniently  stopped  up;  and  that  a  more  commodious  foot  way  may 
be  set  out  for  the  use  of  the  public  in  lieu  thereof;  and  having  viewed 
a  course  proposed  for  the  new  foot  way  to  be  made  by  a  raised  gravel 
causeway  of  the  breadth  of  4  feet  along  the  side  of  the  highway,  leading 
from  the  church  yard  at  the  s[)ot  where  the  first  described  foot  path 
commences,  along  a  road  in  the  said  parish  of  Kempston,  which  is  of 
the  breadth  of  40  feet,  and  called  the  Church  Road  in  a  westerly 
direction  of  the  length  of  190  yards  or  thereabouts,  and  from  thence  in 
a  northerly  direction  along  the  saiil  Bromham  Road  of  the  length  of 
500  yards  or  thereabouts,  to  the  point  in  the  said  Bromham  Road 
where  the  end  of  the  first  above  described  footpath  now  terminates, 
also  particularly  described  in  the  plan  hereto  annexed.  They  order 
tliat  the  said  three  first  described  foot  ways  m;ty  be  stopped  up  and  a 
new  foot  way  set  out  in  lieu  thei'eof  as  last  above  described. 

Plan   relating   to   the   above   mentioned   foot   [laths.  124 

12th   Decemljcr.      Notice  by  two  justices  of  tlu;  peace  that,  having  found  at     126 
a  special   session,  held  at   the  house  of  George  James,  Earl  Ludlow,  lu 


the  parish  of  Cople,  in  the  hundred  of  Wixamtree,  that  a  certain  part 
of  a  highway  in  the  parish  and  hundred  aforesaid,  leading  from  the 
village  of  Cople  to  the  village  of  Northill,  and  lying  opposite  a  garden 
in  the  occupation  of  John  Dunham,  marked  in  the  plan  hereunto 
annexed  with  the  letter  A,  towards  the  parish  of  Northill  aforesaid, 
opposite  a  close  of  pasture  land  in  the  occupation  of  William  Freer, 
marked  in  the  said  plan  with  the  letter  C,  and  containing  in  length 
272  yards  or  thereabouts  ;  and  a  certain  part  of  a  highway  in  the 
parish  of  Cople  aforesaid,  branching  from  the  said  highway  towards 
Northill,  opposite  the  mansion  house  of  the  said  George  James, 
Earl  Ludlow,  marked  in  the  said  plan  with  the  letter  B,  towards  a 
certain  place  in  the  said  parish  of  Cople  called  Water  End,  otherwise 
Wood  End,  lying  between  the  said  highway  leading  towards  Northill 
aforesaid  and  a  certain  part  of  the  said  highway  leading  towards  Water 
End,  otherwise  Wood  End  aforesaid,  opposite  a  cottage  in  the 
occupation  of  John  Stocker,  marked  in  the  said  plan  with  the  letter  D, 
and  containing  in  length  121  yards  or  thereabouts,  and  particularly 
described  in  the  plan  hereunto  annexed — may  be  diverted  and  turned  so 
as  to  make  the  same  more  commodious  to  the  public  ;  and  that  having 
viewed  a  course  proposed  for  the  new  highway  in  lieu  of  the  first 
mentioned  part  of  the  said  highway  leading  towards  Northill,  through 
the  lands  and  grounds  of  the  most  noble  John  Duke  of  Bedford,  of  the 
length  of  255  yards  or  thereabouts,  from  the  said  garden  in  the 
occupation  of  the  said  John  Dunham,  marked  in  the  said  plan  with  the 
letter  A,  to  the  said  close  of  pasture  in  the  occupation  of  the  said 
William  Freer,  marked  in  the  said  plan  with  the  letter  C,  and  of  the 
breadth  of  30  feet  or  thereabouts  ;  and  also  a  course  proposed  from  the 
said  new  highway  in  lieu  of  the  said  part  of  the  said  highway,  described 
in  the  said  plan  by  the  letter  B,  leading  towards  Water  End  otherwise 
Wood  End,  through  the  lands  and  grounds  of  the  said  John  Duke  of 
Bedford,  of  the  length  of  137  yards  or  thereabouts,  from  a  stump  or 
post  in  a  close  called  Green  Close  and  marked  in  the  said  plan  with  the 
letter  E,  to  the  said  cottage  in  the  occupation  of  the  said  John  Stocker 
marked  with  the  letter  D,  and  of  the  breadth  of  30  feet  or  thereabouts, 
particularly  described  in  the  plan  hereunto  annexed  ;  And  that  having 
received  evidence  of  the  consent  of  the  said  John  Duke  of  J>edford  to 
the  said  new  highways  being  made  through  his  lands  herein  before 
described  by  writing  under  his  hand  and  seal  ;  they  do  hereby  order 
that  the  said  highway  be  diverted  and  turned  accordingly. 
127    Plan  of  the  above  mentioned  highways. 

384  12th  January.     Certificate    that    a    certain    common    and    public   bridge 

commonly  called  l^eadlow  Bridge,  situated  in  the  i)arish  of  Clophill, 
leading  from  the  town  of  Ampthill  to  the  town  of  Sliefford,  has  been 
repaired. 

385  12th  January.     Certificate  that  a  certain  common  and  ])ublic  bridge  lying 

in  the  parish  of  Chalgiave  has  been  repaired. 

386  4th  April.     Certificate  that  a  road  lying  in  the  hamlet  of  West  Hyde, 

leading  out  of  a  certain  common  and  ancient  king's  highway,  which 
leads  from  the  town  of  Luton  to  the  vihage  of  Market  Street  in  the 
parish  of  Caddington,  towards  a  certain  other  common  and  ancient 
king's  higliway  leading  from  the  town  of  Luton  to  the  village  of 
Harpendon,  has  been  repaired. 


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26th  December.  Certified  return  of  the  Bedfordshire  Regiment  of  Militia.  387 
1  Cnlonel  (Sir  John  O.sljorn),  1  Lieutenant-Colonel  (Gilpin),  1  Major 
(Iloitier),  4  Captains  (Wallis,  Davits,  Campbell,  and  lliggins), 
5  Lieutenants  (Hankins,  Leech,  Rix,  Harrison  and  Morris),  2  Ensigns 
(Brodrick  and  Triphook),  1  Adjutant  (Brown),  1  Surgeon  (Hyne), 
1  Paymaster,  1  Assistant  Surgeon,  11  Serjeants,  11  Corporals,  7 
Drummers,  and  268  Rank  and  File.     Wanting  to  complete,  49. 

11th  January.     Account  of  James  Ayre  for  £107  7s.   2|d.  for  work  done    403 
to  the  arches  in  the  road  leading  from  Woburn  to  Hocklifie. 

11th  January.     Account  of  Thomas  Elger  for  £2  18s.  3d.  for  work  done    409 
at  the  County  Hall. 

11th  January.     Account  of  Thomas  Elger  for  £7  5s.   Id.  for  work  done    410 
at  the  County  Gaol. 

11th  January.     Account  of  George  and   William  Francis  for  £3   9s.   Id.    423 

for  bricklayers'  work  done  at  the  new  House  of  Correction. 

11th.  January.     Account  of  S.  Rees,  of  Ampthill,  for  £1    13s.  Ud.  for    431 
work  done  at  Cranheld  Bridge  in  the  parish  of  Westoning. 

11th  January.     Account  of  Thos.  Small  for  8s.  for  painting  a  mill  dial  at    432 
the  County  Gaol. 

11th  January.     Account  of  J.  Hinde  for  £18  17s.   4d.  for  plumbing  and    434 
glazing,  &c.  done  at  the  County  Gaol. 

11th  January.     Account  of  Samuel  Burrows  for  £43  15s.  for  taking  up  a    439 
bridge  at  Beadlow  in  the  parish  of  Clophill,  on  the  road  from  Clophill 
to  Shefford  and  building  a  new  one  in  the  same  place. 

8th  January.     Account    of    William    Stains    for    £2    for    "breaking    the    444 
ground  and  damage    in    carting,    in    the    paiishes    of    Bromham    and 
Stagsden  for  digging  of  stone  to  repair  the  county  bridge  in  the  parish 
of  Biddingham. 

18th  January.      Receipt  of  James  Ayr  for  £44  4s.   2d.,   being  the  balance    445 
due  for  work  done  at  Chalgrave  Bridge. 

12th  April.      Account  of  Leos  Cottam  &  Hallers  for  £328  10s.  for  '"a  cast    450 
iron  bridge,  28  feet  span,  with  wrought  iron   work   compleat  delivered 
at  Nevvpoit  Pagnell  as  agreed  with   Mr.  INIillington. 

12th  April.     Account  of  John  Wing  for  £285  18s.  8|d.  for  building  the    457 
addition  for  ihe  female  debtors,      [at  Ijcdford  Prison?] 

Easter  Sessions.     Account  of  Jos.   Beirill  for  £4   lis.  8d.  for  work  and    460 
materials  lor  the  County  Gaol. 

12th  April.     Account  of  Thomas  Times,  coroner,  for  inquests  held  from    472 
Michaelmas,  1824,  to  Easter,  1825. 

P2th  April.     Account  of  James  Small  for   ICs.   for  lighting  a  lamp  with    479 
extra  large  burner  at  the  County  Gaol. 

12th  April.     Account  of  James  Woodrofle  for  19s.  for  work  done  at  the    482 
County  Gaol. 


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488  12th  April.  Account  of  1.  Hiiule  for  £\  Is.  for  work  done  at  the 
County  ll;il!. 

499  Midsummer.  Account  of  John  Ilensman  for  mason's  work  done  at  the 
Bridge  near  Harrold. 

503  Midsummer,  Account  of  Cutler  <^  Sons  for  Xf)  5s-.  for  coach  hire  and 
expenses  to  and  from  Bedford  to  inspect  the  situations  for  erecting  hot 
air  stoves  at  the  lunatic  asylum. 

512  Midsummer.     Account  of  W.  Peacock  for  £2  17s.   6d.  for  work  done  at 

the  House  of  Correction. 

513  Midsummer.     Account  of  Thomas  Elger  for  £5   16s.  3|d.  for  work  dene 

at  the  County  Goal. 

515    Midsummer.     Account  of  Thomas  Elger  for  ,£5  19s.  lO^d.  for  work  done 

at  the  new  House  of  Correction. 

517    Midsummer.     Account  of  Thomas  Small  for  X2  8s.  7d.  for  work  done  at 
the  new  House  of  Correction. 

526  Midsummer.  Account  of  Theed  Pearse  clerk  of  the  peace  for  .£49  Is.  6d. 
for  county  business. 

531  Midsummer.  Account  of  'I'.  Warner  for  expenses  after  Winteu  and  Price, 
who  escaped  gaol  on  the  27th  February,  1825  : — 

Paid,  the  men  who  went  in  pursuit 5s.  6d. 

Paid  for  beer  for  them 2s.  6d. 

Paid  a  man,  who  went  on  horseback,   to   Wilden,  Thurleigh, 

Bolnhurst,  &c 7s    6d. 

Expenses  of  self  and  warden  with  other  assistants  at  Biggles- 
wade all  night  to  examine  the  waggons,  vans,  coaches,  &c.j£1  7s.  6d. 

Wardens  horse  and  cart    10s. 

Warden  for  his  time 10s. 

Paid  for  postage,  &c 5s.  1  Od. 

The  turnkeys  exjicnses  to  Chelmsfoi'd  and   back  to  identify 

Winten  who  had  been  apjirehended  by  the  London  police.. ..£3   6s. 

Sent  to  London  for  tlie  apprehension  of  Winten  as  per  order  £10 

536  Midsummer.  Account  of  Tlieed  Pearse  clerk  of  tlie  jjcace  for  £120  8s.  Id. 
for  business  connected  with  the  repair  of  Turvey  Bridge,  amongst 
which  are  the  following  iten;s  : — 

Attending  at  Sessions  Houses  searching  for  proceedings  as  to  Turvey  Bridge 
in  1794,  1795,  and  17iJ6 £1    Is.   Od. 

Searching  Lysons'  and  (Jorhams'  Saint  Neots  for  information  as  to  tlie 
posiressions  of  the  I'eterboro'  family  at  Turvey    £1    Is.   Od. 

Attending  searching  minute  books  of  sessions,  found  minute  of  indictment 
against  John  Higgins,  Es(]..  and  others  for  not  repairing  Turvey  Bridge 
at  midsummer  sessions  1795 13s.   4d. 

Writing  to  Mr.  Gariard  to  enquire  who  purchased  the  estate  at  Turvey 
formerly  belonging  to  Miss  Penelope  Garratt  and  John  Haiper  Stokes  5s. 


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Perusing  enquiries  and  attending  searching  files  of  Northampton  newspapers 
from  1786  to  1795,  both  inclusive,  for  the  advertisement  of  the  sale  of 
Lord  Peterborough's  estates  to  ascertain  if  there  were  any  mention  of 
the  liability  of  the  estate  to  the  repair £2. 

Attending  in  Aldersgate  Street  at  Mr.  Forest's,  searching  for  the  particulars 
and  conditions  of  the  sale,  uf  the  sale  of  Lord  Peterborough's  estates  at 
Turvey  in  1786,  to  shew  the  liability  of  the  purchasers  as  to  the 
repair  13s.  4d. 

Attending  and  taking  in  writing  the  evidence  of  Mr.  P)errill,  of  Oakley,  who 
repaired  the  bridge  in  1795,  under  the  order  of  Mr.  John  Higgins, 
Senior  • 6s.   8d. 

Writing  a  letter  to  the  agents  and  asking  for  extract  from  the  exchequer  or 
pipe  office  of  so  much  of  the  estreat  roll  of  the  year  1795,  as  related  to 
the  fine  set  on  John  Higgins,  Esqr.,  and  others,  for  not  repairing  the 
bridge,  &c.,  &c 6s.   8d. 

10th  July.     Account    of   Thomas    Elger    for    £736    17s.    3d.  for  taking    542 
down  and  ronioving  the  old  Clay  Bridge,  near  Clifton,  after  its  being 
destroyed  by  floods,  and   rebuilding  the  brick  works  of  the  new  iron 
bridge  in  its  place.... Total  £736   17s.  3d. 

18th  October.     Account    of  James   Ladd  for  £6  4s.  4d.  for  fencing  at    546 
Tempsford  Bridge. 

18th  October.     Account    of  John    Bell,    Eadwell,    mason,    for   £10    for    548 
repairing  Radwell  Bridge  and  making  good  oak  coping. 

18th  October.     Account  of  the  same  for  £1   13s.  4d.  for  repairing  the    549 
above  mentioned  bridge  which  was  damaged  by  the  flood. 

18th  October.     Account  of  Thomas  Noinabell  for  £2   9s.   4d.   for    work    552 
done  at  Harrold  Bridge  to  make  it  passable  after  the  flood. 

18th  October.     Account   of   John    Perry   for   £1    Is.   2d.    for   repairing    555 

Stafford  Bridge  after  the  flood. 

18th  October.     Account  of  Wm.  Clark,  builder,  of  Eynesbury,  St.  Neots,    557 
for  £72  16s.  9d.  for  sundry  work  done  to  the  repairs  of  Eaton  Socon 
Bridge,  by  order  of  the  justices  : — 

31  rods  of  brickwork  in  the  two  parapet  walls  of  the  said  bridge,  the  same 
having  been  washed  away  by  floods — the  above  including  all  materials, 
mortar,  scallblding,  &c.,  at  15  guineas  per  rod £51   3s.   9d. 

Labourers'  time  to  cleaning  4000  old  bricks  saved  from  the  ruins,  and 
cartage  of  same  for  use  in  repairs  of  the  old  walls   £4  10s. 


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255  feet  run  of  old  9  inch  triangular  stone  coping  rejointed  and  reset  with 
mortar,  lead  clamps,  &c.,  at  Gd £6  7s.  6d. 

10  feet  run  of  new  triangular  stone  coping  at  23.  6d £1   5s. 

14  feet  of  3  inch  oak  plank,  40  feet  oak  coping  for  wall  8^  by  5|  ;  labour 
and  fixing  4  :  6  of  circular  oak  coping,  and  fixing  with  iron  bands 
and  nails,  one  oak  post  7  by  9  and  7  feet  long    £7   16s. 

Painting  the  whole  of  the  woodwork  3  times  in  oil,  stone  colour.  £1  14s.  6d. 

560  18th  October.  Account  of  John  ]\IilIington  for  £80  9s.  4d.  (amount  of 
bill  delivered  last  Christmas)  and  £22  19s.,  amongst  which  are  the 
following  items : — 

10th  &  11th  January.  Attending  this  day  at  Clifton  Bridge  on  account  of 
a  report  that  a  late  flood  had  done  considerable  damage  to  it,  in 
consequence  of  which  Mr.  Elger  had  been  obliged  to  put  down  some 
additional  sheeting  piles  to  protect  one  of  the  abuttuients,  wlien  it 
appeared  that  the  principal  source  of  mischief  arose  from  the  sudden 
bend  of  the  river  not  permitting  the  water  to  flow  at  right  angles  to 
the  line  of  the  bridge,  and  to  the  late  floods  having  thrown  much  soil 
and  deposited  more  rubbish  on  one  side  of  the  river  than  the  other  in 
consequence  of  the  form  of  the  river  not  having  been  altered  as  I  had 
directed,  and  attending  the  Quarter  Sessions  on  the  following  day  at 
Bedford  to  report  upon  the  same,  &c £6  6s. 

11th  April.  Self  and  clerk's  time  making  out  the  several  accounts  of 
Mr.  Elger  for  the  repairs  of  Great  Barford  Bridge  ;  of  Mr.  Edwards  for 
Biggleswade  Wash  Brook  Bridge;  of  Cottam  &  Co.  for  the  iron  arch  of 
Clifton  Bridge  ;  and  of  Mr.  Harris  for  carriage  of  same  ;  all  which 
were  forwarded  to  Mr.  Pearse     £3   13s.  6d. 

11th  July.  The  like  computing  the  cliarges  of  Mr.  Elger  for  building 
Clifton  Bridge,  and  the  timber  consumed  in  and  about  the 
same £7  7s. 

567  18th  October.  Account  of  J  no.  ^Millington  for  £80  9s.  4d.  for  work 
done  for  the  county  of  Bedford,  amongst  Avhich  are  the  following 
items : — 

13th  January.  To  time  of  self  and  clerk  making  out  the  bill  of  Mr.  Elger,  &c., 
from  dimensions  previously  taken  for  sundry  work  done  to  the  building 
of  the  new  mill,  wash-house,  lanndry,  and  other  additions  and  improve- 
ments to  the  County  Gaol ;  and  likewise  to  new  entrances,  &c.,  to  the 
Shire  Hall,  £4  14s.  6d. 

19th  January.  Having  received  a  letter  from  Mr.  Pearse  stating  that  the 
winter  floods  had  done  considerable  damage  to  Great  Barford  and 
Eaton  Socon  bridges,  and  had  carried  the  bridge  at  Clifton,  near 
Sheff"ord,  away,  and  requiring  me  to  attend  an  adjourned  Potty  Sessions 
at  Biggleswade  on  the  28th  to  confer  with  the  justices  on  the  above. 
[No  sum.] 


24?. 

28th  January.  Attending  such  Petty  Sessions  at  the  Swan  at  Biggleswade 
at  1 1  o'clock,  when  I  was  directed  to  inspect  the  ruins  of  Clifton 
Bridge  and  to  report  upon  the  best  means  of  repairing  or  reinstating 
the  same ;  at  3  o'clock  this  day,  therefore  proceeded  to  same  and 
took  the  necessary  plan  and  dimensions  and  returned  with  the  same  to 
the  justices'  meeting  at  3,  when  I  reported  the  bridge  to  be  so  far 
destroyed  as  to  render  its  repair  impossible [No  sum.] 

29th  January.  Entered  upon  a  full  and  minute  examination  of  the  state  of 
Eaton  Bridge  this  morning,  and  saw  Messrs.  William  and  John  Day  on 
the  subject,  who  stated  that  the  road  trustees  were  very  desirous  of 
widening  and  improving  the  bridge  ;  also  met  Mr.  William  Clark, 
builder,  of  Eynesbury,  on  the  subject  of  doing  the  repairs,  and  took 
the  necessary  dimensions  for  an  estimate  till  past  2  o'clock,  when  I 
proceeded  to  Great  Barford  Bridge  and  entered  upon  a  similar 
examination  till  dark,  when  I  proceeded  to  Bedford [N'o  sum.] 

30th  January.  Made  a  particular  drawing  of  the  dimensions  of  Eaton 
Socon  Bridge  and  estimate  for  the  repair  of  the  same,  and  likewise  of 
Great  Barford  Bridge,  and  for  rebuilding  Clifton  Bridge  with  a  single 
cast-iron  arch  instead  of  the  two  former  brick  ones,  and  began  report  on 
the  above  but  had  not  time  to  finish  it  before  the  arrival  of  the  mail 
by  which  I  left  for  London , £9  93. 

14th  February.  Having  received  a  letter  from  Mr.  Pearse  that  my  report 
was  approved,  and  ordering  that  the  several  matters  to  which  it  referred, 
should  be  carried  into  effect,  making  working  drawing  for  an  iron  arch 
for  Clifton  Bridge  and  likewise  for  the  brick  abuttments,  and  writing 
to  several  parties  to  ascertain  the  price  for  which  they  would  agree  to 
furnish  the  same    £3  3s. 

29th  February.  Having  agreed  with  Messrs.  Cottam  and  Hallow  to  cast 
the  arch  for  Clifton  Bridge,  attending  them  this  day  to  give  final 
directions  when  the  drawings  were  delivered  over,  and  they  agreed  to 
make  the  aich  conformably  thereto,  and  to  deliver  the  same  on  the 
1st  of  next  July  at  Fenny  Stiatfurd  for  £12  per  ton  ;  also  wrote  to 
Mr.  Forster,  of  Biggleswade,  to  ask  his  charge  for  freight  of  said  bridge 
from  Lynn,  and  abuut  his  having  asked  a  larger  coni].)ensation  than  was 
agreed  to  for  his  corner  of  land  at  Biggleswade  Wash  Brook... [No  .sum.] 

22nd  April.  Writing  long  letter  to  Mr.  Pearse  on  the  subject  of  Mr. 
Elger's  undertaking  the  brickwork  of  Clifton  Bridge    5s. 

28th  April.  Writing  long  particular  letter  and  copy  to  Mr.  Elger  on  the 
subject  of  commencing  the  work  at  Clifton  Bridge,  requiring  him  Istly, 
to  name  a  gross  sum  for  pulling  down  the  old  bridge,  cleaning  the  bricks 
and  clearing  away  the  rubbish  ;  2ndly,  on  the  means  of  diverting  the 
river  out  of  its  course  during  the  above,  and  while  the  new  bridge  was 
building  ;  3rdly,  on  the  necessity  of  dams  or  stanks  for  getting  the  new 
fiuuidatioii  dry  ;  and  4thly,  to  name  a  price  \){.'Y  rod  for  brickwork, 
including  all  materials  with  Bedford  stone,  lime,  &c 15s.  6d, 


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16th  June,  Having  yesterday  received  a  letter  from  Mr.  Elger  stating  that 
he  had  made  consideralile  progress  in  forming  the  dams  and  clearing 
away  the  old  bridge,  and  that  he  wished  me  to  come  down  in  about  a 
week  to  see  the  foundations  got  in  which  he  feared  would  be  very  bad 
and  troublesome  ;  I  wrote  to  him  that  I  would  do  so  and  requested 
him  to  apply  to  Mr.  Palmer  for  leave  to  cut  a  temporary  drain  through 
his  meadow  to  carry  off  the  water ;  likewise  writing  to  Cottani  &  Co. 
to  expedite  the  iron  arch,  &c 7s. 

23rd  &  24th  June.  Attending  both  these  days  at  Clifton  to  give  directions 
about  the  foundation  which  I  found  so  bad  that  I  was  compelled  to 
order  piling  and  planking,  and  to  go  to  a  greater  depth  than  I  had 
anticij)ated    .£6  6s. 

21st  July.  Attending  Mr.  Elger  in  London  on  the  subject  of  the  founda- 
tions of  this  bridge,  considerable  damage  having  been  done  to  the  same 
and  to  the  dams  by  the  late  floods  which  rendered  a  great  additional 
quantity  of  piling,  stanking,  brick  and  earth  work  necessary,  as  the 
soil  was  wasjied  away  to  a  great  extent  on  both  sides  ;  likewise  going 
with  Mr.  Elger  to  several  places  to  endeavour  to  borrow  a  pile  engine 
or  two  for  the  sake  of  expedition     £1  8s. 

26th,  27th,  &  28th  July.  Attending  these  days  at  Clifton  to  inspect  the 
state  and  progress  of  the  work  and  give  directions  about  the  same, 
when  I  was  obliged  to  order  an  additional  pump  on  account  of  the 
great  quantity  of  water  in  the  bottom  ;  and  on  the  28th  went  likewise 
to  inspect  the  repairs  of  Great  Barford  Bridge  which  I  found  completed 
in  a  very  satisfactory  manner  £  1 2   12s. 

29th  July.  Went  this  morning  to  inspect  the  repairs  of  Eaton  Socon 
Bridge [No  sum.] 

30th  July.  Finding  the  iron  bridge  not  yet  arrived  wrote  a  letter  to 
Messrs.  Cottam  (fe  Co.  saying  we  were  waiting  for  it,  and  to  Mr.  Harris 
of  Fenny  Stratford  to  give  instant  notice  of  its  arrival  and  copies   ...5s. 

9th  August.  Having  received  a  letter  from  Mr.  Harris  saying  the  iron  arch 
had  arrived,  I  wrote  a  letter  ordering  its  immediate  conveyance  to 
Clifton    2s.  6d. 

1st  to  20th  September.  On  the  delivery  of  the  iron  arch  at  Clifton  it 
appeared  that  a  mistake  had  occurred  in  making  it  20  feet  Avide 
instead  of  18  feet  as  ordered,  which  occasioned  me  much  trouble  and 
correspondence  and  ended  in  an  arrangement  that  the  price  for  an 
18  feet  arch  only  should  be  paid  but  that  the  abuttments  were 
necessarily   widened £1   Is. 

25th  to  28th  September.  Attending  at  Clifton  to  see  the  iron  work 
properly  fixed,  to  set  out  the  wing  walls  and  to  measure  the  brickwork 
and  timber  used  in  the  construction  of  this  bridge,  &c £Q  6s. 

21st  &  22nd  October.  Attending  this  day  at  Clifton  Bridge  now  compleated, 
for  the  jiurpose  of  finally  examining  and  measuring  up  the  work  ;  also 
to  examine  Holm  Mill  Bridge  and  Tempsfurd  Bridge  in  consequence  of 
a  very  heavy  flood  on  the  lOth  inst.,  all  of  which  I  found  in  perfect 
repair;  lastly  to  meet  Mr.  Claik  to  measure  the  work  at  Eaton  liridge 
which  was  not  yet  quite  finished,  &c £6  6s. 


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18th  October.     Coroner's  return  of  the  names  and  number  of  persons   ^Si 
on  whom  iiicj^uests  had  been  hekl  in  the  county  of  Bedford  from  Easter 
to  Michaehnas. 

Micliaelnias  Sessions.     Account  of  Theed  Pearse  for  £72   6s.  2(1.  for  work    586 
done  for  the  county,  amongst  which  are  the  following  items  : — 

Order  for  payment  of  half  expense  of  repairing  Shefford  Bridge  and 
entering    53. 

Entering  resolution  for  discontinuing  Mr.  jNIillington  in  the  office  of  county 
surveyor  and  for  delivery  of  all  his  accounts  up  to  the  present  time... 5s. 

Order  to  empower  the  visiting  justices  to  contract  with  Mr.  Silvester  for 
warming  and  ventilating  the  lunatic  asylum  and  with  Mr.  Elger  for 
the  necessary  alterations,  &c 5s. 

19th  August.  Attending  the  contractor's  mason  and  writing  long  letter  to 
Mr.  Sylvester  stating  the  difficulty  that  had  arisen  in  consequence  of 
the  foundations  of  the  lunatic  asylum  not  being  carried  so  low  as  the 
proposed  excavations  and  the  doubts  of  the  safety  of  proceeding  with 
tlie  said  excavations,  &c 1 3s.   4d. 

25th  &  2Gth  September.  Writing  to  the  clerks  of  the  peace  of  Hunts., 
Herts.,  Berks.,  Northampton,  Leicester,  and  Cambridge,  stating  the 
difficulty  of  procuring  accommodation  for  the  judges  in  this  county, 
and  enquiring  how  they  were  provided  in  those  counties [No  sum.] 

27th   October.     Account   of    the  Honble.  Geo.  Rice  Trevor  for  £34  for    590 

170  yards  of  stone  used  for  Bromham  Bridge. 

Account  of  Theed  Pearse  for  X16   6s.   7d.  for  Tempsford  Bridge.  591 


12th  January.  Presentment  that  that  there  is  a  certain  common  and  649 
ancient  King's  highway  leading  from  the  village  of  Cranfield  to  the 
town  of  Bedford,  a  certain  pari  whereof  lying  in  the  parish  of 
Wootton,  beginning  at  the  boundary  of  the  parish  of  Marston 
IMoretain  at  a  phrce  called  Upper  Shelton,  and  so  continued  towards 
tne  town  of  Bedford,  7  furlongs  and  28  j)oles  long  and  15  feet  wide,  is 
in  a  state  of  decay,  and  that  the  inhabitants  of  Wootton  ought  to 
repair  the  same. 

13th  April.     Statement  l)y  Frederick  Hervey  Neve  that  he  is  possessed    650 
of  sufficient  estate  to  qualify  him  to  act  as  a  justice  of  the  peace. 

18lh  October.      Report,  dated  at  the  Castle  of  Exeter  and  addressed  to  the    662 
justices  of  the  peace  for  Devon,  by  a  committee  appointed  by  the  said 
justices  to  enqiure  into  the  present  state  of  the  division  of  the  counties 
of  England,  and  of  Devonshire  in  particular.     Copij. 


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i826. 


107  Epiphany  Sessions.  Order  tliat  the  models  and  copies  of  tlie  imperial 
standards  of  length,  weight,  and  measure,  purchaseil  for  this  county,  be 
placed  for  safe  custody  with  Messrs.  Thomas  and  Benjamin  Kil})in, 
ironmongers,  Bedford.  And  that  the  charges  payable  by  persons 
requiring  the  production  of  the  same  be  as  follows,  viz.  :  — 

For  sizing,  trying,  and  stamping  : — 


Measures  of  Capacity. 


Bushel  &  Peck,  6d.  each 

All    below    the     Peck, 
4d.  each 


Measures  of  Weight. 


All  above  14  lbs.,  6d. 

each 
7  lbs.  and  14  lbs.,  3d. 

each 
Below  7  lbs.,  2d.  each 


Measures  of  length. 


Of  any  kind,  2.  each 


Further  order  made  (upon  representation  that  John  Hopkins  "Warden, 
constable,  of  Bedford,  had  (describing  himself  as  inspector  of  weights 
and  measures),  marked  and  altered  certain  weights,  alledging  thereby 
to  render  them  conformable  to  the  standards  described  in  5,  Geo.  IV., 
c.  74),  that  notice  be  published  in  the  usual  newspapers  that  neither 
John  Hopkins  Warden  nor  any  other  person,  except  Messrs.  Thomas 
and  Benjamin  Ivilpin,  has  been  authorized  by  the  magistrates  to  make 
or  alter  any  such  weights  and  measures  in  conformity  to  the  said  act. 

140  27th  February.  Order  that  a  certain  part  of  a  public  footway,  within  the 
township  of  Luton,  and  leading  from  Luton  to  Caddington,  commencing 
at  an  oak  tree  nearly  opposite  the  gate  leading  to  Stockwood  House  in 
Luton,  and  from  thence  crossing  the  road  or  highway  leading  from 
Luton  to  Caddington  and  Market  Street,  and  passing  through  the  said 
gate  leading  to  Stockwood  House  at  the  noith  end  of  a  close  of  Samuel 
Crawley,  Esqr.,  called  Long  Whiplers,  and  over  the  land  and  grounds 
of  ihe  saitl  Samuel  Crawley,  called  Long  Whiplers,  the  padilock,  the 
cow  pasture,  and  Five  Acres  Close  to  the  west  corner  of  the  said  close, 
and  from  thence  across  the  said  road  from  Luton  to  (Jaddington  and 
Market  Street,  to  a  stile  leading  into  a  close  of  the  said  Samuel 
Crawley,  called  Farley  Green,  being  of  the  length  of  677  yards  or 
thereabouts,  and  described  in  a  plan — be  diverted  and  turned,  and  that 
upon  the  completion  of  the  proposed  new  footway  in  lieu  thereof,  over 
the  lands  and  grounds  of  Samuel  Crawley  on  the  north  side  of  the  said 
road  or  highway  leading  from  Luton  to  Caddington  and  Market  Street, 
from  the  said  oak  tree  to  the  said  stile,  in  length  about  GG2  yards,  ami 
in  Ijreadth  4  feet  ;  the  old  footway  shall  be  stopped  up,  and  the  ground 
and  soil  thereof  vested  in  the  said  Samuel  Crawley  in  exchange  for  the 
said  new  footway. 


141    27th  February.     Consent   of   Samuel  Crawley,   Esqv.,  to  the  making  and 
continuing  of  the  proposed  new  footway  over  his  lands. 


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21st  Fehruarj'.     Plan  of  proposed  new  footway  referred  to  in  the  foregoing    142 
order. 

8th  June.  Order  that  a  puhlic  footway  of  the  length  of  about  123  yards,  113 
leading  out  of  a  public  causeway  and  foothpath  in  the  parish  of 
Craufield,  near  the  new  George  public-house  in  the  county  of  Bedford, 
from  a  westerly  point  marked  A  on  the  plan  annexed,  in  and  through 
the  church  yard  of  the  said  parish  in  an  easterly  direction  into  another 
public  causeway  and  footpath  leading  to  Tartlet  End  in  the  said  parish, 
to  a  point  marked  B  on  the  said  plan  ;  and  also  a  certain  other  public 
footpath  leading  out  of  the  said  public  causeway  or  footpath  nearly 
opposite  to  a  bakehouse  and  tenement  occupied  by  Charles  Goodman, 
frou]  a  certain  other  point  marked  C  on  the  said  plan  in  a  southerly 
direction,  of  the  length  of  82  yards  or  thereabouts,  through  the  said 
churchyard  to  a  point  in  the  said  plan  marked  D,  and  from  thence  in  a 
south-west  and  westerly  direction  into  and  through  closes  belonging  to 
John  Paine,  Esqr.,  in  Crantield,  of  the  length  of  293  yards,  or  there- 
abouts, to  a  scile  in  a  public  footway  in  the  said  parish  leading  to  the 
parish  of  Holcot  in  the  said  county  marked  E  on  the  said  plan — may 
be  stopped  up,  ami  in  respect  of  the  first  described  footpath,  that  a 
more  commodious  footway  of  the  length  of  48  yards  in  lieu  thereof,  be 
set  out  for  the  use  of  the  public,  commencing  at  the  said  point  marked 
A  on  the  plan,  near  the  new  George  public-house,  in  a  noitherly 
direction  to  the  said  public  causeway  or  footpath  at  a  point  nuirked  G 
on  the  plan,  on  the  outside  of  the  said  churchyard  which  bounds  the 
north  and  east  sides  thereof. 

8th  June.      Plan  referred  to  in  the  foregoing  order.  144 


Notice  that  the  foregoing  order  will   be  lodged  with  the  Cleik  of  the  Peace     145 
and  will  be  contirmed  and  enrolled,  unless  upon  an  appeal  against  the 
same  it  be  otherwise  determined. 

8th  December.     Deposition  of  William  Carrington,  of  Biggleswade.  350 

"  1  am  a  carrier  and  proprietor  of  a  waggon  from  Biggleswade  to  London. 
Between  4  and  5  o'clock  yesterday  afternoon  the  two  prisoners,  with  a 
third  person,  came  to  my  house  to  enquire  at  what  time  my  waggon 
would  set  out  for  London,  adding  that  they  wouhl  have  two  boxes  to 
send  by  it.  I  informed  them  the  waggon  would  start  at  5  o'clock  on 
the  following  morning,  but  that  the  boxes  must  be  sent  to  the  offices  in 
the  course  of  the  evening. 

The  ]u-isoners  replied  that  they  could  not  get  them  ready  until  half-[)ast  four 
in  the  morning,  by  which  time  they  would  bring  the  boxes  to  the 
office.  The  prisoners  were  strangers,  and  their  appearance  and  cmduct 
excited  my  suspicion,  which  I  communicated  to  the  Beverend  Mr.  Brown, 
who,  with  other  neighl)ours  and  the  watchman  agreed  to  cinne  to  mv 
houwe  to  await  the  arrival  of  the  prisoners.  About  the  time  appointed', 
viz.  :  half-past  four,  the  two  prisoners  with  their  companion  came  to 
my  house  with  a  large  deal  box  corded  and  screwed.     As  soon  as  they 


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entererl  the  yard  I  ordered  the  gates  to  be  locked,  mentioned  my 
suspicions,  and  refused  to  allow  tlie  box  to  go  by  the  waygoii  unless  it 
were  previously  opened  in  my  presence.  The  parties  having  refused  I 
immediately  began  to  uncord  the  box,  which  at  that  time  stood  behind 
the  waggon.  Whilst  I  was  so  employed,  Webb,  tlie  watchman,  told 
me  that  two  of  the  party  had  jumped  over  the  yard  paling  and  made 
their  escape.  One  of  the  prisoners  he  then  held  in  custody,  whom  I 
ordered  the  constable  (who  was  also  present  assisting)  to  take  to  the 
Catherine  Wheel  Public  House.  I  afterwards  heard  that  another  of 
the  party  had  been  secured  and  taken  to  the  same  place,  whither  I  went 
and  found  both  the  prisoners  in  custody  ;  they  were  afterwards  brought 
to  my  house,  and  as  soon  as  it  was  daylight  the  constable,  in  their 
presence,  opened  the  box  which  containe<l  a  corpse  in  a  fresh  and 
perfect  state,  and  which  appeared  to  have  been  recently  disinterred. 
There  was  also  in  the  box  a  quantity  of  sawdust." 


352    8th    December.     Deposition    uf   the    Reverend    Kobert   George    Suckliu 
Brown  : — 

"  On  Wednesday,  December  6th,  I  buried  a  corpse  in  the  churchyard  of 
Biggleswade.  1  have  this  morning  caused  the  grave  to  be  opened  and 
upon  examination  of  tlie  coffin,  it  was  discovered  that  the  corpse  had 
been  taken  away.  The  linen  in  which  the  corpse  was  buried  was  in 
the  coffin,  the  grave  from  the  appearance  of  the  earth  appeared  to  have 
been  very  recently  disturbed." 

374  27th  February.     Certificate  that  such  part  of  the  footway  leading  from 

Luton  to  (Jaddington  as  has  been  turned  and  diverted  by  an  order 
dated  27th  February  is  completed  and  i)ut  into  good  condition  and 
repair. 

375  5th  April.     Certificate  that  a  new  highway  leading  from  the  parish  of 

Cople  in  the  Hundred  of  Wixamtree,  towards  the  parish  of  Northill, 
and  through  the  lands  and  grounds  of  John  Duke  of  Bedford,  of  the 
length  of  about  255  yards,  from  a  garden  in  the  occupation  of 
John  Dunham  in  the  said  parish  of  Cople,  to  a  close  of  pasture  in  the 
occupation  of  William  Freer  and  of  the  breadth  of  about  30  feet,  and 
a  certain  other  part  of  the  said  new  highway,  leading  towards 
Watereml  otherwise  Woodend  through  the  lands  and  grounds  of  the 
said  Duke  of  Bedford,  of  the  length  of  about  137  yards,  from  a  stump 
or  post  in  a  close  called  Green  Close  to  a  cottage  in  the  occupation  of 
John  Stocker,  and  of  the  breadth  of  about  30  feet,  has  been  completed 
and  put  into  good  condition  and  repair. 

376  11th   July.     Certificate  that  a   common    and    ancient    King's    highway, 

leading  from  the  village  of  Cranfield,  towards  the  town  of  Bedford 
situate  in  the  parish  of  Wootton,  and  beginning  at  the  boundary  of 
the  parish  of  Marston  AForetain  at  a  place  calleil  Upper  Shelton,  and 
so  continued  towards  the  town  of  Bedford,  for  the  length  of  7  furlongs 
and  28  poles  and  being  of  the  breadth  of  15  feet,  has  been  repaired. 


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25th  December.  Certified  return  of  the  Bedfordshire  Regiment  of  396 
jMilitia,  consisting  of  1  (Jolonel  (Sir  John  Osborn),  1  Lieutenant 
Colonel  (Gilpin),  1  Major  (Horner),  4  Captains  (Wallis,  Davis, 
Campbell  and  Higgins),  4  Lieutenants  (Hankins,  Rix,  Harrison  and 
Morris),  2  Ensigns  (Broderick  and  Tripbrook),  1  Adjutant  (Leech), 
1  Surgeon  (Hyne),  1  Paymaster,  1  Assistant  Surgeon,  1  Quarter 
Master,  11  Serjeants,  11  Corporals,  7  Drummers,  and  315  rank  and 
file.     Wanting  to  complete,  2. 


3rd  April.     Account  of  Mr.  Foster's  claim  for  compensation  for  land  taken    465 
from     his    pasture    or    clo.se    on    widening    Washbrook    Bridge    near 
Biggleswade,  as  agreed  to  he  allowed  by  Mr.  Millington X5 

To  damage  sustained  by  land  washed  away  from  the  said  pasture  by  various 
floods,  etc.,  in  consequence  of  the  new  direction  of  the  water  course 
not  being  properly  secured  by  planking,  and  also  by  youjig  thriving 
trees  washed  down.  The  number  of  trees  2  oak,  and  3  elms  and 
poplars,  £5.     Total  £10. 


5th  May.     Account  of  John  Sylvester  : —  486 

To  attendance  at  Bedford  to  examine  the  Lunatic  Asylum  with  a  view  of 
warming  and  ventilating  the  same  £5  5s. 

Travelling  and  other  expenses    £3  18s.  6d. 

To  warm  air  stoves  and  superintendence  upon  the  erection  of  the  same 
according  to  agreement  £359 

To  two  ventilating  stoves  at  £9  each  £18 

Attendance  at  Bedford  giving  instructions  for  the  flues  belonging  to  the 
stoves  in  the  new  building  attached  to  the  asylum,  one  day    £3 

To  attendance  at  Bedford  to  examine  the  work  of  the  stoves  and  flues 
erected  in  the  new  building  and  giving  instructions  for  the  completion 
of  the  work  ;  2  days  at  3  guineas  per  day £6   6s. 

Travelling  and  other  expenses     £2  1 2s.  6d. 


4th     April     to     15th     June.       Account     for    repairs     to     Washbrook    506 
Bridge £97  5s.  3d. 


10th  October.     Account  of  William  Berrill,  junr.  : —  53Q 

To  digging  out  and  making  a  large  brick  barrell  drain  from  the  bottom  part 
of  Well  Street  to  a  point  given  in  Water  Lane  in  St.  Paul's  parish 
Bedford  as  per  estimate £143 


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547  I7tli  October.  Estimate  by  William  Berrill,  junr.,  for  digging  out  and 
making  a  barrell  drain,  3  feet  wide,  2  feet  G  inches  deep  in  the  clear, 
of  4|  inch  brickwork  to  the  lower  part,  and  9  inch  brickwork  to  the 
upper  part,  laid  in  strong  mortar  the  .-^ame  as  the  present  new  drain, 
and  to  extend  from  the  end  of  the  new  drain  to  the  river  79  yards  in 
length,  in  a  line  through  the  corner  of  Mr.  Barnard's  meadow  to  the 
deep  water ;  with  strong  stone  work  to  the  end  of  arch,  and  making 
dams  and  getting  out  water,  etc.  To  complete  in  a  workmanlike 
manner  for  the  sum  of £81    10s. 

562  8th  November.     Estimate  of  W.  Berrill,  junr.,  for  building  an   18  inch 

stone  wall  to  bank  side  of  Mr.  Barnard's  meadow,  from  the  point  the 
drain  enters  the  meadow  to  a  willow  tree  at  the  corner,  about  100  feet 
in  length,  will  cost   £12   10s. 

563  Account  of  Francis  Giles  for  inspecting  Bromham,  Holme  Mill,  ShefFord, 

Eaton  8ocon,  Tempsford  and  Barford  Bridges,  and  Bedford  drain, 
directing  repairs,  attending  at  Sessions,  etc £132  5s.   6d, 

565 — 585    Various    Accounts   of   Thomas   Elger   for   work   done   at   the   Lunatic 
Asylum. 

576  1825 — 26.  Account  of  Thomas  Elger  for  extra  bricklayers  work  at  the 
Lunatic  Asylum  : — 

The  large  new  coal  vault  and  small  beer  cellar    £42  12s.  7d. 

Extra  biicklayers,  plasterers  and  slaters  woik  to  the  new  male  and  female 
wards,  consisting  of  additional  foundations  and  digging  to  the  same. 
An  additional  "10  :  10  "  length  of  building  to  form  the  dead 
rooms,  etc.,  and  the  panelling  to  the  front  boundaiy  walls,  gauged 
arches  to  the  circular  windows  in  the  back  walls  of  the  new  cells. 
Whitewashing  the  new  ceilings  and  limewashing  the  walls  once,  extra 
digging  out  the  ground,  and  turning  an  18  inch  gun  barrell  drain,  and 
paving  the  open  sheds     £263  7s.  6^d. 

Extra  bricklayers,  plasterers  and  slaters  Avork  to  the  old  wards  and  yards, 
consisting  of  works  to  the  new  open  sheds  and  covered  ways.  Raising 
the  olil  external  and  internal  walls,  and  whitewashing  and  limewashing 
the  old  cells  and  day  rooms,  &c £192  5s.  6d. 

606  1825 — 1826.  Account  of  Thomas  Elger  for  work  done  extra  from 
contract  at  the  Lunatic  Asylum  £1835  10s,  d^d. 

G49  1st  October.  Indictment  of  ]\Iichael  Foster,  late  of  Luton,  labourer,  for 
disturbing  a  certain  congregation  of  protestant  dissenters  from  the 
Church  of  England,  at  a  chapel  situated  in  Luton. 

668  8th  December.  Indictment  of  George  Lester,  late  of  the  parish  of 
Biggleswade,  labourer,  and  William  Smith,  late  of  the  same,  labourer, 
for  entering  the  churchyard  at  Biggleswade  and  breaking  open  the 
grave  of  one,  John  Cooper,  lately  interred,  and  carrynig  away  the 
body. 


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10th  Januarj\     Letter  from  Thomus  Liigcr  to  chairman  bikI  justices  of  the    672 
county  of  Bedford,  requesting  them  to  desire  Mr.   Millington  to  revise 
the  account  for  work  done  in  rehuilding  Clay  Bridge,  near  Clifton,  on 
the   ground   that   the    prices   he   had  allowed   were    not    sufficient    to 
remunerate  him. 


27th  March.     Letter  dated  at  Huntingdon,  from  John  Sweeting  to  Theed    674 
Pearce,  clerk  of  the  i)eace  for  the  county  of  Bedford. 

"  I  am  directed  hy  the  magistrates  acting  for  this  county,  to  acquaint  you 
that  last  week  a  pass  was  granted  from  St.  Albans  to  Market  Street, 
ordering  some  persons  to  be  conveyed  from  thence  in  the  direct  way 
through  Carlisle  to  the  western  part  of  Scotland,  and  that  the 
constables  instead  of  carrying  them  through  the  counties  of  Bedford  and 
Northampton,  they  were  brought  to  St.  Neots  in  this  county  and  there 
left.  A  similar  circumstance  arose  of  vagrants  having  been  sent  from 
Chelmsford  to  Bishop  Stortford,  when  instead  of  proceeding  the  direct 
way  to  Liverpool,  they  were  sent  to  St.  Neots.  The  justices  beg  you 
will  inform  the  magistrates  of  this  at  the  next  General  Sessions,  that 
they  may  give  directions  to  their  officers  to  prevent  similar  occurrences." 


16th  October.     Letter  from  Solomon  Piggon,  rector  of  Dunstable,  to  the    679 
presiding  justice  at  Quarter  Sessions,    on    behalf    of    David    Cooper, 
17  years  of  age,  who  had  committed  a  felony. 


10th  July.     Memorial  of  the  trustees  of  Shefford  Bridge.  696 

"At  a  meeting  of  the  feoffees  of  the  Shefford  Charity,  holden  the  10th 
July,  Mr.  Giles'  report  of  Shefford  South  Bridge  aud  plan  for  a 
proposed  enlargement,  were  delivered  to  them  by  the  Clerk  of  the 
Peace  by  an  order  of  the  court,  and  taken  into  consideration.  The 
feoffees  then  present  beg  leave  to  state  to  the  magistrates  assembled, 
that  they  are  of  opinion  the  obligations  and  duties  of  their  trust  do  not 
permit  them  to  be  parties  in  the  erection  of  any  new  bridge,  or  in  the 
enlargement  of  the  old  one.  And  if  any  alteration  be  thought 
convenient  to  the  public,  that  the  e.xpense  ought  not  to  fall  in  any 
degree  upon  the  funds  of  a  private  charity.  The  present  bridge  is 
quite  sufficient  for  all  the  purposes  of  the  town  of  Shefford." 

"  With  respect  to  the  removal  of  the  guard  po.sts,  the  feoffees  are 
unanimously  of  oi)inion  that  such  removal  wouhl  very  greatly  endanger 
the  safety  of  all  foot  passengers.  The  footway  in  its  widest  part  being 
only  four  feet,  after  allowing  for  an  eaves  dropping,  and  towards  the 
bridge  it  becomes  much  narrower." 

"  The  feoffees  moreover  bog  leave  to  observe  that  the  projected  enlargement 
or  widening  of  the  biidgc,  being  on  the  same  side  of  the  river  as  ihe 
foolpath  is,  the  danger  to  passengers  will  be  still  more  increased." 


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699  11th  December.  Declaration  by  John  Flint,  of  Leighton  Buzzard,  that 
he  has  two  printing  presses  and  types  for  printing,  which  he  purposes 
to  use  within  the  said  parish,  and  which  he  requires  to  be  entered  for 
tliat  purpose  in  pursuance  of  an  Act  39,  Geo.  III. 

1827. 

51  January.  Gaol  Return.  George  Lester  and  William  Smith,  sentenced 
to  pay  a  fine  of  ,£10  each,  and  to  be  severally  imprisoned  in  the 
common  gaol  for  three  months ;  and  further,  until  the  said  fines  shall 
be  paid  for  breaking  a  grave,  digging  up  and  taking  away  a  dead  body. 

125  16th  October.  Order  (made  upon  representation  that  some  paupers 
ordered  to  be  removed  through  the  county  to  Ireland  and  Scotland, 
bring  with  them  heavy  lugy;age,  and  one  of  them  lately  brought 
luggage  to  the  extent  of  150  lbs.  weight,  and  that  several  have  dresses 
entirely  inconsistent  with  their  assumed  character  of  paupers)  ;  that 
Jonathan  Nunn,  the  contractor  for  removing  Irish  and  Scotch  paupers 
through  the  county,  be  authorized  to  refuse  to  convey  any  luggage 
unless  the  pauper  or  paupers  claiming  the  same  do  go  before  a  Justice 
of  the  Peace,  and  explain  to  the  satisfaction  of  such  Justice,  the 
nature  of  such  luggage  and  a  reasonable  cause  for  its  being  convej'ed 
with  such  pauper  or  paupers  ;  and  such  Justice  is  requested,  if  he  be 
satisfied  with  the  explanation  given,  to  certify  the  same  under  his  hand, 
with  a  permission  for  the  conveyance  of  such  luggage  at  the  expense  of 
the  county. 

129  22nd  March.     Order   that   a    certain    public    footway,  of  the   length    of 

about  608  yards,  and  leading  from  a  certain  other  public  footway  from 
Ampthill  to  Flitton,  from  a  southerly  point  at  a  hand  gate  at  the 
corner  of  Allen's  Close  in  Ampthill,  marked  A  on  the  plan  annexed  ; 
in  an  easterly  and  n.)rth-easterly  direction  in  and  through  a  certain 
close,  called  Seven  Path  Close,  belonging  to  George  P]xton  ;  and  also 
in  and  through  a  certain  other  close,  called  Town  Close,  part  of  the 
estate  of  the  feoffees  of  the  Ampthill  Charity  Estates  ;  ami  also  in  and 
through  a  certain  other  close,  called  Lndy  Mead,  belonging  to  Thomas 
Gibbs  ;  and  also  in  and  through  a  certain  other  close,  called  Duck 
Riddy,  another  part  of  the  estate  of  the  said  feoffees  (all  which  said 
closes  are  in  the  parish  of  Ampthill)  to  the  road  leading  from  Ampthill 
to  Maiden  to  a  point  marked  B  on  the  said  plan — may  be  stepped  up 
as  useless  and  unnecessary,  there  being  no  direct  communication  from 
any  place  whatsoever  in  a  line  or  in  the  direction  of  the  same  ;  and 
that  the  surveyor  of  the  highways  for  the  parish  of  Ami)thill  shall  sell 
and  dispose  of  the  said  footway  and  the  ground  and  soil  thereof,  to  the 
proprietor  or  proprietors  whose  lands  and  closes  adjoin,  if  he  or  they 
shall  be  willing  to  purchase  the  same  for  the  full  value  thereof. 

130  22nd  March.      Plan  of  the  footway  referred  to  in  the  foregoing  order. 

131  22nd   March.      Notice    that   the  foregoing  order   will   be  lodged   with  the 

Clerk  of  the  Peace,  and  will  be  confirmed  and  enrolled,  unless  upon  an 
appeal  against  the  -same  to  be  then  made,  it  be  otherwise  determined. 


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2nd  July,  Order  that  a  certain  part  of  a  public  highway,  within  the  132 
Hamlet  of  Leegrave,  leading  from  Leegrave  towards  Dunstable,  and 
commencing  at  the  north-west  corner  of  a  certain  close  belonging  to  the 
Keverend  '6ir  John  Filmer,  bart.,  near  the  gate  leading  to  Lewsey  farm 
house  in  the  hamlet  of  Leegrave,  and  from  thence  passing  along  the 
side  of  the  hedge  through  a  certain  close  belonging  to  John  Duke  of 
Bedford,  in  a  westerly  direction  until  it  enters  the  parish  of  Houghton 
Regis,  and  being  of  the  length  of  64-9  yards,  and  described  in  a  plan 
annexed,  may  be  diverted  and  turned,  and  that  a  course  proposeii  for 
the  new  highway  in  lieu  thereof,  over  the  lands  and  grouuds  of  the  said 
Duke  of  Bedford  on  the  east  side  of  the  said  close  belonging  to  the 
said  Duke,  and  along  the  side  of  a  hedge  in  a  southerly  direction  from 
the  north-west  corner  of  the  said  close  belonging  to  the  said  Sir 
John  Filmer  into  the  public  highway  leading  from  Luton  to  Dunstable, 
of  the  length  of  650  yards,  and  of  the  breadth  of  20  feet,  being 
completed  ;  the  said  old  highway  shall  be  stopjied  up,  and  the  ground 
and  soil  thereof  vested  in  the  said  John  Duke  of  Bedford  in  exchange 
for  the  said  new  highway. 

30th  June.     Consent    of   John    Duke    of    Bedford    to    the    making    and    133 
continuing  of  the  foregoing  proposed  new  highway. 

Plan  of  the  said  proposed  new  highway.  134 

15th  November.  Order  made  upon  viewing  a  certain  part  of  an  ancient  136 
highway  in  the  parish  of  (Jranlield,  leading  from  a  way  post  at  Gallow 
Highway  to  the  gate  at  the  corner  of  Moulsoe  Wood,  in  the  county  of 
Buckingham,  commencing  at  an  easterly  point  marked  15  on  the  plan 
annexed,  near  to  a  certain  close  or  ground  called  Sugar's  Piece,  leading 
in  south-westerly  and  north-westerly  directions,  of  the  length  of  about 
500  yards,  to  a  point  on  the  west  side  of  lands  belonging  to  Thomas 
Sfapleton,  in  Crosslund  Furlong  in  Stillipeis  Field  in  Cranfield, 
marked  C  on  the  plan;  ami  also  upon  viewing  a  certain  new  road  set 
out  in  lieu  thereof  from  tlie  said  point  on  the  plan  marked  B,  leading 
in  a  straight  line  into  and  over  lands  of  Joseph  Ashby  Partridge,  Esqr., 
Edward    Odell,    the    said    Thomas    Stapleton,    John    Odell,    and    the 

Keverend Fiy,  situate  in   Crossland  Furlong,  of  the  length  of 

412  yards,  and  of  the  breadth  of  30  feet,  to  the  said  point  marked  on 
the  plan  C — that  the  first  described  highway  shall  he  stopped  up,  and 
the  land  and  soil  thereof  be  sold  by  the  surveyors  of  the  highways  of 
the  parit^h  of  Crantield  to  the  party  or  parties  whose  land  or  lands 
adjoin  thereto,  if  he  or  they  he  willing  to  purchase  the  same  for  the  full 
value  thereof;  and  in  respect  of  the  above  descrilied  new  road  or 
highway,  that  it  shall  he  diverted  and  turned  through  the  said  lands 
and  Furlong;  and  that  the  said  suiveyors  shall  forthwith  treat  and 
make  agreement  with  the  above  mentioned  owners  of  land  for 
recompense  to  bo  made  for  the  said  ground,  and  the  making  of  such 
tlitches  and  fences  as  shall  be  necessary.  And  it  is  further  ordered 
that  an  equal  assessment,  not  exceeding  the  rate  of  6d.  in  the  pound, 
be  levied  upon  all  the  occupiers  of  lands,  tenements,  woods,  tithes  and 
hereditaments  in  the  said  parish  of  Cranfiehl.  The  justices  are  fully 
satisfied  that  the  above  mentioned  new  higiiway  is  now  pro[)erly  made 
uud  completed. 


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137    15th  November.     Plan  of  the  new  highway  referred  to  in  the  foregoing 
order. 

424  24th  April.     Certificate  that  a  part  of  Bromham  Bridge,  being  over  the 

Eiver  Ouze,  in  the  parish  of  Biddenham,  is  repaired. 

425  25th  April.     Certificate  that  a  certain  highway  in  the  parish  of  Streatly, 

coniniouciug  at  the  Church  Green  in  the  said  parish,  to  the  turnpike 
road  leading  from  the  hamlet  of  Silsoe,  towards  Luton,  and  continuing 
in  length  4620  feet,  is  repaired. 

426  6th  July.     Certificate  that  part  of  the  highway  leading  from  Leegrave  to 

Dunstable  which  has  been  diverted  and  turned,  is  completed. 

454  Easter  Sessions  :    Report  of  the  Clerk  of  the  Peace  pursuant  to  an  order 

directing  him  to  ascertain  whether  Holm  Mill  Bridge  be  a  county 
bridge. 

"  In  pursuance  of  the  above  mentioned  order  I  have  made  enquiries  in  the 
neighbourhood  of  the  bridge,  and  find  that  it  has  been  repaired  when 
necessary  by  the  owners  or  occupiers  of  the  Holm  Mill  and  never  by 
the  county.  On  applying  to  Mr.  Mark  Norman,  now  residing  at 
Langford,  who  for  a  period  of  40  years  was  the  occupier  of  the  mill,  he 
informed  me  that  the  present  bridge  was  built  under  his  direction 
about  50  years  ago,  on  the  site  of  a  former  one  which  had  fallen  to 
decay,  and  the  expense  of  the  building  was  repaid  to  him  by 
Dr.  Weyman  the  then  proprietor  of  the  mill  :  that  by  the  direction  of 
his  landlord  he  repaired  the  bridge  from  time  to  time  when  necessary, 
the  expense  of  whicli  was  allowed  to  him  on  settling  his  rent,  that  he 
has  heard  his  uncle  (who  proceeded  him  in  the  occupation  of  the  mill) 
say  that  previous  to  the  erection  of  the  mill,  the  highway  was  through 
a  ford  which  became  impassable  on  the  water  being  raised  by 
embankments  to  form  a  head  to  work  the  mill." 

"  The  present  mill  is  a  flat  structure  over  the  mill  head,  and  only  a  few 
inches  above  the  surface  of  the  water,  which  by  means  of  the 
embankment  is  considerably  above  the  level  of  the  adjoining  lands. 
Under  the  above  circumstances  I  do  not  think  the  county  liable  to  the 
repair  of  the  bridge." 

455  20tli  April.      Report  of  Francis    Giles    of   Salisbury    Street,    London    in 

which  he  states  that  upon  inspecting  Holme  Mill  Bridge,  he  finds  that 
the  railing  and  other  wood  work  of  this  bridge  is  in  an  indictable  state, 
and  that  he  has  been  requested  by  Mr.  Astell  to  report  the  very 
dangerous  position  of  the  angular  railing  at  the  south  corner  of  the 
approach  to  Girtford  Bridge,  and  that  he  finds  upon  examination  of  the 
same,  that  the  remedy  will  be  to  round  or  smooth  off  this  angular 
corner,  which  might  be  (b)ne  by  means  of  a  dwarf  wall  and  railing 
similar  to  the  present  fence,  l)ut  that  he  should  recommend  iu 
preference  to  that  a  guard  wall  altogether  and  no  railing. 


255 

Midsummer  Spssions.  Report  of  the  visiting  justices  of  the  Lunatic  457 
Asylum, in  which  they  .state  thattliey  have  dcferreil  making  arrangements 
for  estahlishing  a  re>-'i(lent  medical  superintendent  in  the  said  asylum, 
in  conse(iuence  of  a  measure  having  been  announced  in  i)arliament  for 
enabli!ig  the  justices  and  visitors  ^o  appoint  medical  residents  in  public 
lunatic  asylums  under  certain  regulations  and  they  think  that  they  will 
be  aljle  to  give  a  belter  opinion  on  this  important  subject  after  it  shall 
have  received  the  benefit  of  parliamentary  investigation. 

25th  December.     Certified     return     of    the    Bedfordshire    regiment    of    459 
Militia    consisting    of    I    Colonel    (Sir   John    (.)sborn)    1     Lieutenant- 
Colonel    (Gilpin),    1    Major    (Horner),    4    Captains     (Wallis,    Davies, 
Campbell  ami  Higgins),  5  Lieutenants  (Hankin,  Kix,  Harrison,  Morris 
and  Gosling),  2  Ensigns  (Broderick  and  Trephook),  1  Adjutant  (Leech), 

I  Surgeon  (Hyne),  1  Paymaster  1  assistant  surgeon,  1  Quarter  Master, 

II  Serjeants,  11  Corporals,  7  drummers  and  317  Rank  and  file. 

8th  January.     Account  of  W.   Berrill  Junr.,  by  order  of  Mr.   Giles  for    491 
work  at  Barford  Bridge     £88   14s.   5d, 

Francis  Giles  recommends  that  £80  be  paid  on  account  of  the  above  bill 
and  that  the  balance  be  reserved  until  further  work  is  done  to  the 
paving  "  under  the  arches  "  of  Barford  Bridge. 

8th  January.     Account  of  the  expenses  defrayed  by  Francis  Giles  upon    494 
the  partial  woiks  of  AVashbrook,  Biggleswade  Girtford  and  Tempsford 
Bridges    £33  7s.   2d. 

8th  January.     Account    of    V\\    B.    Usher,    for    woik    done    to    Barford    ^^^ 
Bridge £7  16s.  9d. 

8th  January.     Account  of  AV.    B.   Usher,   for  repairs  to  Great  Barford    498 
Bridge    £61   15s.  3d. 

9th  January.     Account  of  John  Tregenza,  Keeper  of  the  new  House  of    499 
Correction  for  certain  articles  supplied  to  prisoners,  etc. 

£  s.  d. 

To  1  cwt.  of  soap  (Mr.  Robinson)    1  16  0 

„   22  truss  of  straw  (Mr.  Parker) 1  Q  0 

,,  3  lbs,  of  Candles  and  3  lbs.  of  rushlights   0  3  6 

„  Tucker  and  witness  (whipping) 0  3  6 

,,  Cash  to  prisoners  on  discharge 2  19  0 

,,   Stephen  Prior,  for  shaving,  etc 1  10  0 

,,  Tea,  sugar,  etc.,  to  females  in  lieu  of  soup  (sic) 3  6  0 

,,  Beer  to  fenuiles  when  washing    0  15  0 

,,   Beer  to  men  employed  in  the  drains  13  9 

„  Gin  to  ditto,  per  order  of  the  surgeon    • 0  3  0 

,,   James  Crowsley,  spice  gruel  21  days  at  6d 0  4  8 

,,   Postage  during  ihe  quarter 0  0  10 

„   Making  16  prison  shirts 0  16  0 

,,  a  quarter's  salary     35  0  0 


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517  to  522    October,  1826— January,  1827.     Accounts  of  Tlieed  Pearse,  Clerk  of  the 
Peace,  for  the  eouiJty  of  Be.lfoid .£92    10,-^.   6d. 

577    24th  April.     Account  of  Thomas  Elger  for  alterations  and  repairs  at  the 
County  Hall. 

To  making  sundry  alterations  in  the  Court,  consisting  of  enlarging  the 
counsel  pew,  forming  two  new  seats  for  the  attorneys.  Altering  and 
enlarging  the  dock,  and  preparing  and  fixing  up  new  seats  under  the 
gallery  for  the  public,  and  additional  enclosed  benches  between  the 
dock  and  the  counsel  pew,  jn-eparing  and  ti.xiiig  round  the  bend  a  new 
oak  desk  with  inkstands,  converting  and  fixing  the,  old  narrow  desk 
into  a  ledge  or  shelf  under  the  new  one,  and  clearing  and  scraping  the 
old  coping,  and  uttering  the  large  table,  etc £47    16s.   2d. 

620  10th  April — June.     Account  of  "Wm.  \yade  for  repairs  to  the  Bedfordshire 

side  of  St.  Neots  Bridge £17  6s.  5d. 

621  10th    April — 6th  July.      Account    of   AVilliam    Clark    for   the   same    as 

above  £19  5s. 

622  3rd  March  to  14th  April.     Account  of  W.  B.  Usher  for  work  done  to 
Washbrook  and  Biggleswade  Bridges £21   6s.   3d. 


*DO' 


623  23rd  June  to  3rd  July.     Account  of  W.  B.  Usher  for  Tempsford  Bridge 

"wharffing"  £42  14s.  9d. 

624  ^f'^y — J'^'b'-     "An     abstracted    prime    cart    account"    of    Thomas    Gwyn 

Elger  for  time  and  materials,  etc.,  used  at  Clifton  Bridge. 

To  taking  up  the  camp  sheeting  forming  a  stark  to  turn  the  water,  digging 
out,  pumping  the  water  and  working  in  the  foundations,  and  building 
new  wing  walls,  rebuilding  the  fence  walls  and  coping  them  with 
Ketton  stone,  levelling  and  making  good  the  banks  on  each  side,  and 
painting  the  bridge  twice  over  in  oil  colours,  etc £390   17s.    lid. 

631    2nd  May— 9th  June.     Account  of  Jos.  Berrill  for  bricklayers  work,  etc., 
to  the  County  Goal. 

675    16th  October.     Account  of  Thomas  Warner,  goaler. 

To  one  quarter's  salary  due £50  Os.  Od. 

(379    2nd  July.     Account  James  T.  AVing. 

To  taking  down,  repairing  and  resetting  part  of  the  j)arapet  walls  of 
Tempsford  Bridge,  pointing  the  joints  and  taking  up  the  kerb-stone, 
levelling  the  ground  and  resetting  the  same £10   16s.   lid, 

ggi    2nd  October.     Account  of  W.  Berrill,  Junr. 

To  balance  of  accounts  delivered  for  rei)airK  at  Great  Barford  Bridge  in 
October,  1826 £8   14s.  5d, 


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1st  September— 29th.     Account  of  W.  B.  Usher.  685  &  686 

To  the  stone  mason's  work  at  Hohne  Bridge £37   Is.  2d. 

To  new  bridge  on  the  road  leading  from  Broom  to  Biggleswade,  by  Holme 
Mills    £91   7s.  3d. 


9th  July.     Estimate  by  Francis  Giles,  for  rounding  the  angular  corner  of    706 
Girtford  Bridge  by  means  of  a  guard  wall  etc.     The  cost  to  be  rather 
more  than £20  Os.  Od. 


28th  July— 25th  August.     Account  of  W.  B.  Usher.  693  &  694 

To  widening  the  road  at  the  South-west  wing  of  Girtford  Bridge. .£24  Os.  7d. 
Girtford  Bridge,  post  and  railing  at  the  wing  wall  £9  2s.  4d. 


Abstract  of  amount  of  work  done  in  warming  and  ventilating  the  wards  of    714 
the  Bedford  Lunatic  Asylum — by  Thomas  G.  Elger. 

The  old  building  (one  of  the  wings). 

Work  done  as  per  contract £130  Os.  Od. 

Ditto  extra £91  Os.  Od. 

The  other  wing,  contract  and  extra £221  Os.  Od. 

The  new  building  (one  of  the  wings). 

Work  done  as  per  contract     £40  Os.  Od. 

Extra  from  contract £128  3s.   9d. 

The  other  wing,  contract  and  extra  £168  3s.  9d. 

Amount  deducted  for  warm  air  flues  as  intended ..£25  Os.   Od. 

The  new  coal  vault £32  Is.  9d. 


9th  July.  Presentment  that  Shefford  North  Bridge,  over  the  river  Ivel,  739 
in  the  highway  leading  from  Bedford  towards  Hitchin  in  the  county  of 
Hertford  is  in  great  decay,  and  very  narrow,  and  that  the  battlements 
not  being  of  sufficient  height,  passengers  are  in  danger  of  falling  into 
the  river,  and  it  is  further  presented  that  the  inhabitants  of  the  county 
of  Bedford  ought  to  repair  the  said  bridge. 

9th  July.     Presentment  as  above  in  respect  of  Shefford  South  Bridge.         741 


21st  November.      Indictment  of  James  Burns  of  Great  Barford,  labourer.    796 
and  William  Lloyd  of  the  same,  labourer,  for  obtaining  parish  relief  by 
means  of  a  forged  certificate,  purporting  to  be  given  by  two  justices  of 
tho  peace  for  the  borough  and  port  of  Liverpool. 


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819    19th  May.     Copy  of  a  letter  from  Francis  Giles,  surveyor  for  the  county 
of  Bedford,  to  Mr.  Robert  Laxton,  Hohne  Mills. 

"On  the  part  of  the  county  of  Bedford  I  have  to  request  that  you  ^vill 
inform  me  whether  you  will  consent  to  the  drawing  down  your  water 
of  Holme  Mill  Head,  during  the  progress  of  rebuilding  or  repairing 
from  time  to  time,  the  bridge  across  the  said  Mill  Head,  provided  the 
county  should  undertake  to  rebuild  and  maintain  that  bridge  for  the 
future,  and  provided  also,  that  the  drawing  down  your  said  water 
should  not  exceed  12  working  days,  during  the  progress  of  rebuilding 
the  said  bridge  at  any  one  time,  nore  more  than  2  days  at  any  one  time 
during  the  execution  of  any  partial  repairs  to  the  said  bridge." 

"  If  you  think  proper  to  agree  to  the  foregoing  propositions,  I  will  lay  your 
agreement  before  the  magistrates  of  the  county  of  Bedford  at  the  next 
Quarter  Sessions  and  then  inform  you  whether  the  county  will 
undertake  the  rebuilding  and  maiutainance  of  the  above  bridge,  or  not 
accordingly." 


520    9th  July.     Letter  from  same  to  the  magistrates  of  the  county  of  Bedford, 
regarding  Clifton  Bridge. 

"  I  have  directed  the  necessary  works  for  securing  the  abutments  and  wing 
walls  of  this  bridge  to  be  executed.  I  have  also  found  it  necessary  to 
take  down  the  parapet  walls  and  to  rebuild  them,  also  to  cover  them 
Avith  a  proper  stone  coping. 

"These  works  have  been  executed  by  Mr.  T.  G.  Elger  whose  accoimts  for 
them  I  herewith  present,  amounting  to £390   17s.   lid. 

"  It  was  impossible  (as  I  observed  to  the  court  at  the  last  Epiphany  Session) 
to  correctly  estimate  the  cost  of  these  works,  and  I  found  that  the  south 
abutment  of  the  bridge  Avas  undermined  3  or  4  feet,  and  that  it  was 
necessary  to  go  very  deep  into  the  bed  of  the  river  to  obtain  a  good 
foundation  for  the  purpose  of  underpinning  this  abutment,  and  also  for 
building  the  very  long  wing  walls  to  it.  The  parapet  walls  required 
also  taking  down  and  entirely  rebuilding  and  coping  with  stone,  and 
the  iron  work  to  be  painted." 

"  I  have  had  the  whole  substantially  executed  and  I  hope  this  bridge  will 
now  be  found  to  be  durable." 


821    9th  July.     Letter  from  the  same  to  the  same  regarding  Tempsford  Bridge. 

"  I  have  directed  the  necessary  repairs  of  the  parapet  walls  to  be  made  by 
Mr.  Wing  of  Bedford  (a  mason)  but  he  has  not  yet  completed  them. 
A  further  work  was  necessary  at  this  bridge,  that  is,  the  camp  sheeting 
of  timber  on  the  north  west  side  of  it  wanted  reinstating.  I  have 
accordingly  had  this  done  by  Mr.  W.  B.  Usher  whose  account  of  it  I 
herewith  present  amounting  to    , ,....£42    Hs.  9d," 


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9th  July.     Letter  from  the  same  to  the  same  respecting  Eaton  Socon  Bridge.    822 

"  I  have  directed  tlie  necessary  repairs  to  be  made  to  Eaton  Socon  Bridge 
and  they  have  been  made  by  Mr.  WilUam  Wade  (a  mason)  and 
Mr.  WiUiam  Clarke  (a  bricklayer)  whose  account  I  herewith  present 
amounting  to     " £36  10s.  5d." 


9th  July.     Letter  from  the  same  to  the  same  regarding  Biggleswade  Bridge.    823 

"  I  have  directed  the  rails  to  the  north  end  of  this  bridge  to  be  put  up. 
Some  stone  was  also  necessary  to  the  N.E.  wing  wall,  which  I  have 
also  directed  to  be  done,  and  both  these  works  have  been  executed 
by  Mr.  W.  l>.  Usher  whose  account  I  herewith  present  amounting 
to      £21   6s.   3d. 


9th  July.     Letter  from  the  same  to  the  same  regarding  Holme  Mill  Bridge.    824 

"  I  have  inspected  this  bridge  and  I  think  before  any  works  of  it  be  under- 
taken by  the  county  it  will  be  highly  necessary  to  get  Mr.  Laxton,  the 
proprietor  of  Holme  Mill,  to  consent,  in  writing,  to  the  use  of  the 
above  mill  waters  without  charge  from  him,  during  either  the  repairs 
or  rebuilding  of  this  bridge.  1  have  therefore  written  to  Mr.  Laxton 
upon  this  subject,  a  copy  of  which  letter  I  beg  now  to  present  to  the 
court,  to  which  I  have  not  yet  received  Mr.  Laxton's  answer,  but  I 
have  conferred  with  him  upon  the  subject  and  I  have  reason  to  believe 
that  he  will  consent  to  the  i)ropositiuns  which  I  have  made  to  him. 
As  soon  as  he  does  so,  1  will  have  the  necessary  repairs  executed,  but 
the  bridge  will  not  want  rebuilding  at  present." 


28th  July.     Letter  dated  at  Buckworth,  from  Robert  Laxton  to  Franci-s    824a 
Giles. 

"  Agreeable  to  your  request  I  hereby  agree  to  draw  the  water  at  Holme  Mill 
in  the  parish  of  Southill  Bedfordshire  as  follows.  For  rebuilding  the 
bridge  over  the  Mill  Head,  8  days.  Fur  repairing  the  bridge,  2  days 
one  week.  Notice  being  previously  given  when  occasion  of  repairs 
may  require." 


16th  October.  Letter  from  Francis  Giles  to  the  magistrates  of  the  county  825 
of  Bedford,  in  which  he  states  that  he  has  found  the  top  of  Holme 
Mill  Bridge,  which  consisted  of  wood  to  be  so  much  decayed,  as  to 
require  nearly  the  whole  of  the  woodwork  to  be  renewe<l,  and  that  the 
foundation  walls  were  also  very  much  delapidated,  and  he  accordingly 
had  the  bridge  substantially  repaired  by  Mr.  W.  li.  Usher. 

(See  also  Nos.  685  and  686) 


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826    16th  October.    Letter  from  tlie  same  to  the  same  regarding  Girtford  Bridge. 

"  I  have  had  the  angular  corner  of  the  north-west  side  of  Girtford  Bridge 
rounded,  so  as  to  remove  the  former  damage  to  carriages  in  crossing 
this  bridge.  In  executing  this  work  a  long  masonry  wall  with  top 
railing  was  removed  and  rebuilt,  and  the  foundation  for  the  new  wall 
has  vinavoidably  been  carried  much  deeper  than  was  expected  to  be 
necessary.  This  work  has  been  performed  by  Mr.  W.  B.  Usher,  whose 
account  I  herewith  present  amounting  to    £33  3s.   lid. 

829  5th  January.     Declaration  by  Charles  Thomas  Gardner  of  Biggleswade, 

that  he  has  a  printing  press  and  types,  which  he  proposes  to  use  for 
,  and  which  he  requests  may  be  entered  for  that  purpose 
in  pursuance  of  a  Act  39  Geo.  III. 

830  12th  December.     Statement  by  Thomas  Gwyn  Elger  as  to  the  work  for 

which    he   has  contracted    for  warming  and  ventilating   the  different 
Avards  of  the  Lunatic  Asylum. 

831  Plan  apparently  relating  to  the  above  statement. 


1828. 

67  28th  March.     Recommendation    by   certain  justices,   of  Mr.  Nathaniel 

Cartwright,  of  Dunstable,  as  one  of  the  High  Constables  of  the  hundred 
of  Manshead. 

68  15th    January.     Appointment     (under      the     Risely     Enclosure     Act, 

33  Geo.  III.),  of  Benjamin  Welstead  of  Kimbolton,  gent,  and  Thomas 
Bloodworth  of  the  same,  gent,  to  enquire  the  average  ])rice  of  a 
Winchester  bushel  of  wheat  within  the  county  for  the  space  of  10  years 

last  past. 

69  15th  January.     Similar  appointment  (under  the  Shelton  Enclosure  Act, 

34  Geo.  III.)  of  the  same  persons. 

70  15th    January.       Appointment    (under    the     Henlow     Enclosure    Act 

35  Geo.  III.)  of  the  Bevd.  Edniond  Williamson  of  Campton,  and  the 
Revd.  Robert  Porter  Beachcroft  of  Blunham,  to  enquire  as  to  the  same 
matter. 

71  15th  January.     Order  that  the  yearly  tithe  rent  of  £329  Os.  8|d.  payable 

to  the  Vicar  of  Henlow  (the  Rev.  William  Burgess  Ilaynes)  shall  be 
decreased  to  £255  9s.  Od, 

The  foregoing  order  was  made  upon  a  report  re  Henlow  corn  rent,  that  the 
average  price  of  a  AVinchester  bushel  of  wheat  within  the  county  of 
Bedfordshire  for  10  years  past  was  7s.  8d.  per  bushel.  This  report  is 
dated  probably  in  error  19lh  Muich,  1828. 


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15th  January.     Nomination    of   justices   as  visitors   of   the  Gaol  and    72 
House  of  Correction. 


15th  April.     Similar  nomination.  83 


15th  July.     Order  that  the  yearly  tithe  rent  of  £259  10s.  Id.  payable  to    93 
the  vicar  of  Kisely  shall  be  decreased  to  £173  6s.  7f(l. 


16th  July.     Appointment  (under  the   Rlunham  and  Northill  Enclosure    94 
Act  36  Geo.  III.)  of  William  AVells   Gardener  of   Biggleswade,  gent., 
and  Thomas   Bloodworth   of   Kimbolton  gent.,  to  enquire  the  average 
price  of  a  Winchester  bushel  of  wheat  within   the   county  for  the  last 
15  years. 

15th  July.     Order  that  the  yearly  tithe  of  £206  13s.  ll£d.,  payable  to  the    98 
Rector  of  Shelton  shall  be  decreased  to  £138  Is. 


14th  October.     Order   that  the  yearly   tithe  of  £567   16s.  5d.    payable    106 
to  the    Rector   of    the   parish   of    Blunham    shall    be  decreased    to 
£456  lis.  ll^d. 


14th  October.  Order,  under  the  Act  9  Geo.  IV.,  appointing  eight  special  113 
sessions  to  be  held  in  each  of  the  following  divisions  for  the  hundreds 
of  Barford,  Stodden  and  Wiiley,  at  the  "Tinker"  in  Turvey  ;  for  the 
hundreds  of  Biggleswade,  Clifton  and  Wixamtree,  at  the  "  Swan  "  Inn 
in  Biggleswade,  for  the  hundred  of  Manshead  at  the  "George"  Inn  in 
Woburn  ;  for  the  hundred  of  Flitt,  at  the  "  George  "  Inn  in  Luton  ; 
and  for  the  hundred  of  Redbornstoke,  at  the  "  White  Hart "  in 
Arapthill. 


10th  December.     Order  that  a  foot  way  within  the   parish  of  Flitwick  in    161 
the  hundred  of  Redbornstoke,  lying  between  Flitwick  and  Tingrith  and 
being  of  the  length  of  about  312  yards,  be  diverted  and  turned  through 
the  lands  of  John  Thomas  Brooks  Esqr.  of  Flitwick. 


10th  December.     Consent  of  the  said  John  Thomas  Brooks  to  the  making    162 
and  continuing  the  said  new  footway  in  consideration  of  the  old  footway 
beinu  vested  in  him. 


Order  that  the  said  old  footway  be  stopped  up.  Ig3 

Plans  of  the  old  and  now  footway  referred  to  in  the  foregoing  order.  164  &  165 


262 


167  10th  December.  Order  that  a  certain  part  of  a  highway  within  the  parish 
of  Flitwick,  lying  between  Flitwick  and  Tingrith  for  the  length  of 
about  633  yards,  and  described  in  a  plan  annexed,  be  diverted  and 
turned,  and  that  an  equal  assessment  of  6d.  in  the  pound  be  made  upon 
all  the  occupiers  of  lands,  tenements,  woods,  tithes  and  hereditaments, 
in  the  said  parish,  and  that  the  money  arising  therefrom,  be  applied  in 
making  recompence  to  John  Thomas  Brooks  Esqr.  for  the  ground,  and 
the  making  of  such  ditches  and  fences  as  shall  be  necessary  in  the 
construction  of  a  proposed  new  highway,  in  length  643  yards  and  in 
breadth  20  feet,  through  his  lands. 


168  Order  that  the  old  highway  of  the  length  of  633  yards  and  of  the  breadth 
of  28  feet,  be  stopped  up  and  the  land  and  soil  thereof  be  sold  by  the 
surveyors  of  the  highways  of  the  parish  of  Flitwick  (where  the  old 
highway  lies)  to  John  Thomas  Brooks  Esqr.  whose  lands  adjoin  thereto, 
if  he  shall  be  willing  to  purchase  the  same  for  the  full  value  thereof,  if 
not,  to  some  other  person  or  persons  for  the  same,  reserving  nevertheless 
to  the  said  J.  T.  Brooks,  Esqr.,  a  free  passage  for  persons,  horses, 
cattle,  and  carriages  through  the  land  and  soil  of  the  said  old  highway, 
to  and  from  the  house,  land  and  premises  belonging  to  him,  and  now 
in  his  own  occupation,  and  to  and  from  the  house  and  premises  also 
belonging  to  him  and  now  in  the  occupation  of  ^Yilliam  Richardson, 
according  to  his  ancient  usage  thereof. 


Certificate  that  the  said  old  highway  was  sold  by  the  said  surveyor  to 
John  Thomas  Brooks,  Esq.,  for  £47  4s.,  which  sum  the  said 
J.  T.  Brooks  is  ordered  to  pay  to  the  said  surveyor,  to  be  applied  in 
purchasing  the  land  and  making  the  new  highway,  and  if  any  surplus 
remains,  the  same  to  be  applied  for  the  use  of  the  highway  within  the 
parish  of  Flitwick. 

Note  that  the  above  sum  was  received  from  John  Thomas  Brooks  for  the 
said  consideration  on  27th  April,  1829,  by  Henry  Pirink Surveyor. 


169  10th  December.  Consent  of  John  Thomas  Brooks  Esqr.  of  Flitwick  to 
the  n)aking  of  a  new  highway  through  his  lands,  and  the  removal  of  a 
cottage  now  standing  at  the  entrance  of  the  said  proposed  new  highway 
as  marked  on  the  \>\im  annexed,  (or  such  part  thereof  as  may  be 
necessary)  in  consideration  of  the  old  highway  being  vested  in  him  and 
also  of  the  sum  of  ,£55. 


170  &  171   Plans  of  the  old  and  proposed  new  highway  referred  to  in  the  foregoing 
order, 

173  12th  July.  Notice  of  appaal  on  behalf  of  ^ralcolm  ^lacquecn  Esqr.  of 
Ridgmont,  against  an  assessment  for  the  relief  of  the  poor  of  that 
parish. 


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22nd  August.  Information  of  Charles  Bailey  of  Bedford,  surveyor  of  357 
tlie  Hitchin  tuinpike  road,  that  Thomas  Purser  of  the  hamlet  of  East 
Cotts,  in  the  parish  of  Cardington,  being  the  driver  of  a  cart,  rode 
thereon  along  the  turnpike  road  of  the  said  hamlet,  without  having 
any  person  on  foot  or  on  horseback  to  guide  the  same  contrary  to 
statute  made  3  Geo.  IV,  which  has  imposed  a  forfeiture  of  40s.  for 
the  said  offence. 

24th    November.       Deposition    of    John    Jones    of    Luton,    straw-hat  395  ^  399 
manufacturer. 

"  On  Wednesday  the  5th  November  instant  about  7  o'clock  in  the  evening, 
I  came  from  the  warehouse  in  the  yard  into  the  house  and  found  a  mob 
assembled  in  front  of  it  throwing  stones,  brickbats  etc.,  at  the  front  of 
the  house,  and  heard  the  breaking  of  the  windows.  1  took  no  notice 
of  them,  nor  did  any  one  else  to  my  knowledge,  and  after  some  time 
they  went  away. 

"  My  brother  was  from  home  and  T  went  up  the  town  for  him,  and  came 
home  with  him,  about  an  hour  afterwards  we  heard  a  great  noise  in 
the  street,  I  went  with  my  brother  upstairs  to  see  what  it  was  and 
saw  an  immense  mob  of  people  coming  up  the  street,  towards  the  house 
with  a  tar  barrel  on  fire  blazing  at  both  ends.  When  they  arrived  near 
the  house  they  attacked  it  with  stuues  and  other  missiles,  brickbats, 
squibs  and  crackers  and  broke  more  of  the  windows  and  rolled  the  tar 
barrel  to  the  boards  in  front  of  the  new  building  and  tried  to  set  it  on 
fire. 

"  My  brother  called  out  of  the  window  to  the  mob  and  said  if  they  did  not 
take  it  away  he  would  fire  on  them.  The  mob  then  rolled  the  tar 
barrel  away  and  put  it  against  the  fence  opposite  the  house  and 
continued  violently  assaulting  the  liouse  with  stones  etc.  My  brother 
still  threatened  to  shoot  them  if  they  did  not  give  over.  I  begged  him 
not  to  fire  though  I  felt  tlie  danger  we  were  in. 

"  They  rolled  the  barrel  from  the  fence  and  then  attempted  to  set  fire  to 
one  of  the  cottages  and  my  brother  then  fiiud  the  gun  in  the  air  over 
the  field  opposite  the  house,  and  the  mob  retired  with  the  barrel  down 
the  road  again.  A  few  minutes  after  they  returned  again  with  ihe  tar 
barrel  and  repeated  the  former  violence,  my  brother  again  repeatedly 
cautioned  them  but  they  still  persisted  in  their  violence,  and  my 
brother  at  length  fired  across  the  road,  but  not  in  the  direction  of  the 
mob,  and  again  they  retired  down  the  lane  with  the  barrel  and 
apparently  had  gone  away  and  I  came  down  stairs  with  my  brother. 

"Shortly  after  we  again  heard  them  approaching  with  dreadful  yelling  and 
uproar,  and  I  went  with  my  brother  upstairs  to  look  out,  and  saw  them 
approaching  again  with  the  blazing  barrel,  and  distinctly  heard  some 
one  at  their  head  encouraging  them  on.  They  again  repeated  their 
attack  with  increased  fury  and  struck  my  brother  violently  on  the  hat 
with  a  brick-bat,  and  I  heard  an  exclamation  in  the  crowd  "  There 
we've  done  for  him  now."  I  now  began  to  be  seriously  alarmed  and 
begged  of  my  brother  to  fire  at  them  as  the  only  means  of  defen.liiig 
our  lives  and  property  from  total  destruction.  My  brother  then  fired 
in  a  direction  over  the  heads  of  the  mob,  and  I  believe  shot  some  of 
them. 


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"  They  then  went  away  apain  with  the  barrel  and  I  saw  no  more  of  it. 
During  the  last  attack  my  brother  called  out  to  the  crowd  that  he 
would  shoot  them  if  they  did  not  desist,  at  least  twenty  times  before 
he  fired.  I  saw  a  lad  of  the  name  of  Waller  roll  the  tar  barrell.  I  did 
not  observe  that  any  of  the  persons  who  rolled  the  tar  barrel  had  any 
of  their  faces  disguised.  I  did  not  see  any  guns,  but  heard  the  report 
of  guns  in  the  town." 

439  16th  January.     Certificate,   by  two  justices,  that  tliey  have  viewed   a 

partly  ancient  and  partly  new  highway  in  the  parish  of  Cranfield, 
commencing  at  a  guide  post  near  the  village  of  Cranfield,  and  ending 
at  or  near  a  wood  called  the  Lower  or  lesser  wood  in  Moulsoe  in  the 
county  of  Bucks,  which  said  highway  was  indicted  on  28th  April  1824, 
and  has  since  been  partly  turned  and  diverted,  and  a  new  highway  set 
out  in  lieu  thereof. 

440  16th  January.     Certificate  by  two  justices  that  Eaton  Bridge  in  Eaton 

Socun,  in  the  highway  leading  from  Bedford  to  St.  Neots,  in  the 
county  of  Huntingdon  is  repaired. 

441  16th  January.      Certificate  by  two  justices  that  Harrold  Bridge  in  the 

several  parishes  of  Harrold  and  Chellington,  and  situate  in  the  highway 
leading  from  Harrold  to  Bedford,  is  repaired. 

442  16th  January.     Certificate  by  two  Justices  that    Clay  Bridge,   over   a 

branch  of  the  River  Ivel,  the  .'south  part  whereof  to  the  middle  of  the 
stream  of  the  said  river  is  in  the  i)arish  of  Clifton,  and  the  north  part 
to  the  middle  of  the  said  stream  is  in  the  parish  of  Southill,  and 
situate  in  the  highway  leading  from  Henlow  to  Northill,  is  repaired. 

443  16th  January.     Certificate  by  two  justices  that  Barford  Bridge  over  the 

river  Ouze,  and  situate  in  the  highway  leading  from  Bedford  to 
St.  Neots,  in  the  county  of  Huntingdon  is  repaired  ;  one  part  of  the 
said  bridge  is  situate  in  the  parish  of  Blunham  and  the  other  part  in 
that  of  Great  Barford. 

444  &  445  16th  April.  Certificates  that  a  certain  highway  leading  from  the  village 
of  Cranfield  towards  the  town  of  Newport  Pagnell  in  the  county  of 
Buckingham,  situate  in  the  parish  of  Cranfield,  and  commencing  at  a 
guide  post  near  the  said  village  and  ending  near  a  wood  called  tlie 
Lower  and  Lesser  Wood  in  the  j)arish  of  Moulsoe  in  the  county  of 
Buckingham  is  repaired.  The  said  highway  is  in  length  2,680  yards, 
and  in  breadth  22  feet. 

474  25th  December.  Certified  return  of  the  Bedfordshire  regiment  of 
Militia,  consisting  of  Colonel  Sir  John  Osborn,  Bart.,  Lieut. 
Colonel  Gilpin,  Major  Horner,  Captains  Wallis,  Davis,  Campbell,  and 
Higgins,  Lieuts.  Haukiu,  Kix,  Harrison,  Morris,  Gosling,  Ensigns 
Broderick  and  Tripliook,  Adjutant  Leach,  Surgeon  Hyne,  Paymaster 
Gosling,  Assistant  Surgeon  Kix,  Quarter  Master  Morris,  11  Serjeants, 
11  Corporals,  7  drummers  317  privates. 


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4th    July.     Report    (re.    Risely    corn    rent)    of   Benjamin    Welstead    of    475 
Kimboltori,     gent.,     Thomas    Bloodworth    of    the    same,    gent.,    and 
Nevill  Day,  of  St.  Neots,  gent,  that  the  average  price  of  a  Winchester 
bushel  of  wheat  for  the  space  of  ten  years  last  past  within  the  county 
is  7s.  4d. 

16th  July.     Similar  report  re.  Shelton  corn  rent.  476 

22nd    September.     Report    (re.   Blunham    corn    rent)    of   William    Wells    477 
Gardiner   of  Biggleswade,   gent.,   Thomas    Bloodworth   of  Kimbolton, 
gent.,  and  Miller  Golding  of  Biddenham,  gent.,  that  the  average  price 
of  a  Winchester  bushel  of  wheat  for   15  years  last  past,   within   the 
county,  is  8s.   l^d. 

13th  December.     Report  (re.  Maulden  corn  rent)  of  Thomas  Bloodworth    478 
of  Kimbolton,  gent.,  Charles  Austin  of  Ampthill,  gent.,  and  William 
Wells   Gardner   of  Biggleswade,    gent.,   that   the   average    price    of   a 
Winchester    bushel    of    wheat    within    the    county    for    the    space    of 
14  years  last  past,  is  7s.   llfd. 

15th  July.  Report  of  Theed  Pearse  Esqr.  Clerk  of  the  Peace,  that  he  479 
communicated  to  the  trustees  of  the  Hitchin  turnpike  road  the  report 
of  Mr.  Giles,  and  the  order  of  Sessions  thereon,  "  that  if  the  trustees 
should  agree  to  contribute  £100  towards  repairing  the  North  Bridge 
and  should  signify  the  same  to  the  Clerk  of  the  Peace  that  he  be 
authorized  to  direct  the  repairs  to  be  carried  into  effect." 

He  has  received  the  consent  of  the  trustees  to  contribute  the  said  amount, 
in  consequence  of  which  he  communicated  to  Mr.  Giles  the  onlers  of 
the  court  to  proceed  witli  the  repairs,  and  reported  that  he  had 
delivered  to  the  feoffees  of  the  Shetford  Charity  estate,  copies  of  the 
.said  orders,  and  oiders  for  re-building  the  South  Bridge  and  repairing 
the  North  Bridge  and  also  the  copy  of  the  resolutions  of  the  court  that, 
considering  the  feoffees  of  the  Shetford  Charity  estate,  are  still  liable 
under  the  feoffment,  10th  February  1630,  to  repair  the  highways, 
causeways,  and  bridges,  within  the  town  of  Shetford  the  court  does 
accordingly  hold  the  feoffees  liable  to  continue  to  pay  a  proportion  of 
the  expences  of  repairing  the  South  Bridge  if  rebuilt,  and  the  North 
Bridge  if  repaired,  at  such  proportions  vizt.  one  half,  as  was 
determined  by  the  Court  and  by  the  feoffees  in  1803  and  again  at  the 
nudsu miner  sessions  of  1825  ;  and  that  copies  of  the  said  orders  be 
sent  to  the  feoffees. 

15th  January.     Estimate  for  improvements  to  be  carried  out  on  that  part   516 
of  Harrold  Bridge  belonging  to  the  county  of  Bedford £60   6s.   Od. 

18th  January.  Estimate  given  by  Francis  Giles,  civil  engineer,  of  the  551 
prul)al)le  expence  of  erecting  a  bridge  over  the  south  river  at  Shefford, 
having  the  use  of  the  present  materials  and  30,000  new  bricks,  also 
stone  for  coping,  together  with  a  substantial  cast  iron  top  and  railing  for 
an  opening  or  waterway  of  16  feet  at  the  least,  and  22  feet  clear  width 
of  roadway. 


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To  taldng  down  the  present  and  cleaning  the  materials,  cost  of  30,000  new 
bricks,  also  of  lime,  sand,  etc.,  and  the  labour  of  building  the  new 
abutments,  wing  walls  and  parapets £140  Os.  Od. 

To  17  tons  of  iron  work,  including  carriage  fixing  and  painting  it,  at  £13 
per  ton   £221  Os.  Od. 

To  coping  the  parapet  walls  stone  130  lineal  feet  at  5s £32  10s.  Od. 

To  erecting  stands  and  wood  railing,  turning  water,  pumping,  diverting  road 
and  contingencies £106   10s.  Od. 

591  r2th  April.     Statement  by   Francis  Giles  in    reference    to    Eaton    road 

bridges  : — 

"  I  have  had  the  necessary  repairs  made  to  the  parapet  walls,  which  had 
been  in  part  wilfully  thrown  down  and  generally  much  dilapidated.  It 
appears  from  the  best  information  which  I  can  collect  that  the  above 
bridges  were  built  about  30  years  ago  by  Mr.  Clark  a  builder  of 
St.  Neots  (by  contract)  and  that  the  expence  of  building  them  was 
paid  by  the  trustees  of  the  road." 

Accounts  follow  for  the  above  works  for  £64  18s.  7d. 

592  12th   April.     Account  of  William  Clark,  for  repairing  brickwork  at  Eaton 

great  bridge,  by  order  of  Mr.  Giles  £23   16s.   3d. 

593  12th  April.       Account  of  W.  B.  Usher  for  work  done  to  Eaton  .south  and 

north  bridges    £20  15s.   lid. 

594  12th  April.     Statement  of  accounts  for  the  necessary  partial  repairs  to 

Langford  iron  bridge,  by  Francis  Giles,  amounting  to  £7  6s.  5d. 

595  12th  April.     Statement    of   accounts    by    Francis    Giles   for   repairs    to 

Tempsford  Bridge  amounting  to  £38  9s.  5d. 

597  &  598  12th  April.  Statement  by  Francis  Giles  with  reference  to  Holme  Mill 
bridges.  "  In  reference  to  the  small  arch  on  the  east  side  of  Holme 
Mill  Bridge,  I  have  inspected  it,  but  it  is  not  injured  by  a  late  flood  as 
was  represented,  nor  is  it  otherwise  wanting  any  present  repairs. 

In  reference  to  the  new  bridge  at  Holme  Mill  (l)uilt  last  year)  there  were 
some  partial  additions  necessary  to  the  fencing  of  the  roadway  which 
I  have  done  ;  and  the  account  for  the  work  (annexed)  to  W.  B.  Usher 
is  £4  8s.  6d. 


605  15th  April.  Account  of  Francis  Giles,  surveyor  for  the  county  of 
Bedford,  for  estimating  attending  certain  meetings,  and  inspecting 
certain  bridges,  and  directing  repairs  for  the  same,  etc £45   17s. 


3 

0 

0 

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10 

0 

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6 

1 

6 

2 

0 

267 

15th  April.     Extract  from  bill  of  T.  W.  Warner  goaler.  G14 

Execution  of  John  Lincoln — 

Executioner's  fees    £3 

Travelling  Expences 1 

Expences  whilst  here 0 

Rope  and  cords   0 

The  knell 0 

Men,  beer  at  the  drop 0 

Easter  1827 — 1828.     Account  of  the  receipts  and   expenditures   of   the    626 
county  lunatic  asylum. 

Receipts. 

By  maintenance  of  patients     £1561  0  0 

By  cash  for  board  of  Mrs.  Yandall 15  12  0 

By  cash  from  county  fire  office   7  0  0 

Expenditure. 

Butter,  963  lbs.  price  lOid.— Is.  6d £45  18  6 

Baking  ". 33  3  0 

Cheese  1447  lbs.  price  6d.—7d 36  6  10 

Candles  36  doz.  p.  6d 1114  0 

Coals,  80  chaldns 184  10  0 

Cooper 2  5  0 

Carrier  8  16  6 

Carpenter,  bricklayer  and  glazier 23  0  0 

Chimney  sweeping     ... 1  7  0 

Drapery 116  17  2 

Drugs     ••• 7  9  9 

Eggs  0  12  7 

Earthenware 4  6  6 

Garden  seeds  and  labour 8  4  1 

Hay,  1  ton  4  0  0 

Hopsl24lbs 6  10  0 

Ironmonger 16  19  4 

^[eat,  10,457  lbs.  6d.—Cid 307  19  10 

Malt  124  bushels  ." 51  10  0 

Mops  and  brushes 10  10  3 

Oatmeal  10  sacks    3i  7  6 

Poor  rates  £5    9s.     Ud.    Church    £2    8s.    6d.   and   Conipi. ")  ^  a  ^r\ 

£1  7s.  3d .". /  -^  *  ^^^ 

Plums  and  currants  0  11  3 

Rent lb  0  0 

Soap  53  12  3 

Starch     1  9  6 

Shoes 48  16  10 

Salt,  15bhs 1  11  2 

Snuff  17  lbs.  Tobacco  14  lbs 7  7  6 

Spirits  and  Brandy    £2   17s.   8d.  ^  ^  ^  ^ 

Ginu  2     8     0/  o  o  H 


0 

0 

0 

0 

15 

8 

6 

4 

1 

10 

8 

9 

5 

0 

14 

0 

15 

6 

9 

0 

16 

0 

18 

6 

0 

7 

10 

0 

15 

0 

18 

9 

9 

7 

2GR 

Apothecary's  salary   £21 

Governor's      ditto     80 

Sugar  (loaf)104lbs 4 

Ditto  (moist)  392  lbs 12 

Stationery 7 

Sand  1 

Straw 22 

Tea  69  lbs.  at  66 20 

Tailor 9 

Wheat  111  lbs.  3  bushels  at  33s.— 39s 198 

Wages  of  servants 95 

Wood 4 

Vinegar,  treacle,  black  lead,  hearth  stone,  bricks,  etc 4 

Insurance  12 

Cash  returned  to  the  Revd.  Mr.  Ward    2 

S  tamps  4 

Balance  in  Treasurer's  hands    18 

635  15th  July,  Account  of  John  Hide  for  expences  in  conveying  Irish 
paupers  from  Slatford  (sic)  to  Ampthill  on  pass  for  Ireland. 

Mary  Maccarty  13s.  Thomas  Collins  13s.  John  Kelley  13s. 

758  5th  April.     Petition  of  certain  attornies  attending  the  Assizes  and  Quarter 

Sessions  for  the  county,  to  the  chairman  (Sir  Robert  Harry  Ingliss 
Bart.)  and  magistrates  of  the  said  county,  calling  attention  to  the 
inconvenient  state  of  the  Shire  Hall  and  particularly  on  the  criminal 
side,  there  being  no  door  or  passage  appropriated  for  the  entrance  of 
the  attornies,  without  subjecting  themselves  to  the  charge  of  disturbing 
the  court,  when  attending  on  professional  business. 

Much  of  the  inconvenience  arises  from  the  door  being  so  near  to  the  bench 
that  the  judge  and  chairman  often  find  it  impossible  to  proceed  with 
the  business  without  ordering  it  to  be  kept  shut,  and  there  being  no 
jmssage  to  the  seats  appropriated  for  the  said  attornies  through  the 
other  entrance. 

In  the  event  of  an  alteration  being  made  in  the  entrance,  it  is  suggested  that 
a  bailiff  of  the  court  should  be  appointed  to  keep  the  door,  such  bailiff 
being  acquainted  with  the  professional  gentlemen  of  the  county. 
Numerous  signatures. 

759  January.     Petition  on  behalf  of  Thomas  Perry,  labourer,  now  a  prisoner. 

Numerous  signatures  of  his  fellow  parishioners,  but  no  parish  named. 

790  13th  October.  Presentment  that  a  certain  part  of  a  highway  leading 
from  the  village  of  North  Crawley,  in  the  county  of  Buckingham 
towards  the  village  of  IMarston-lMoretain,  commencing  at  a  certain  place 
called  Crawley  0;ite  and  continuing  for  the  length  of  2,007  yards,  and 
being  f)f  Ihe  brondth  of  30  feet,  is  in  great  decay  and  further  lliat  the 
inhabitants  of  the  parish  of  Craniield  should  repair  the  same. 


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5th  November.  Presentment  that  Richard  Shane,  James  Belcher,  (alias  797 
James  Shaw)  John  Burr,  Joseph  Butt,  Joseph  Poulter,  James  AValler, 
John  Cox  and  Fiancis  Lowen  (or  Lousen)  labourers  of  Luton,  together 
with  about  50  other  persons  made  riot,  with  sticks,  stones,  guns, 
firework,  and  other  offensive  weapons  and  missiles,  and  also  rolled  a 
blazing  tar  barrel  through  George  Street  and  other  streets  and  highways 
of  the  parish  of  Luton,  and  wilfully  damaged  the  dwelling  house  of 
Richard  Jones,  breaking  50  panes  of  glass  of  the  said  dwelling  by 
throwing  stones  etc.  at  the  windows,  and  that  they  also  threatened  to 
murder  the  said  Richard  Jones. 

True  bill  against  Shane,   Waller,   Belcher,   (alias  Shaw),  Joseph  Butt  and 
John  Burr;  Poulter,  Cox  Lousen  not  guilty. 

5th  November.     Presentment  that  Richard  Jones  of  Luton,  straw-plait    798 
manufacturer,  wilfully  shot  at  and  wounded  Francis  Lousen  of  the  said 
parish,  labourer. 

5th  January.      Letter  from  James  Fielding,  surveyor,  with  reference  to  the    8L5 
bad  state  of  the  Bolnhurst  Road  adjoining  Thurleigh  and  stating  that 
the  said  road  does  not  come  under  the  surveyor's  care  and  that  it  never 
was  in  the  memory  of  man  repaired  by  the  parish,  but  by  the  landlord, 
Mr.  Franklin. 


22nd  February.     Letter  from  John  Durham,  of  Dunstable,  resi^nin"  the    ^1^ 
office  of  High  Constable  for  the  hundred  of  Manshead. 

L5th    April.       Letter    from    William    Saundersou    of    Roxton,    to    tlie    817 
magistrates  at  (Quarter  Sessions. 

"  Having  applied  to  the  magistrates  at  Biggleswade  viz.  the  Revd.  Mr.  Hull, 
'J\  Pym  P>qr.,  and  S.  Thornton  Esq.  to  ol)tain  a  road  under  the  arch  of 
the  bridge  called  Tempsford  ]]ridge,  in  my  meadow,  to  a  small  piece  of 
land  lying  on  the  other  side  of  the  bridge,  I  was  requested  by  them  to 
attend  the  Quarter  Sessions  to  day,  but  as  I  am  obliged  to  be  another 
way,  I  have  sent  my  son  to  say  that  we  have  no  other  method  of 
getting  our  hay  out,  than  by  drawing  it  under  the  bridge  with  a  horse 
so  much  to  the  injury  of  the  hay,  that  it  is  worth  but  little  when  got, 
and  as  I  coidd  l)e  able  to  go  through  any  one  of  the  arches  with  a  cart 
and  bring  out  the  hay  without  doing  any  injury,  and  as  there  is  no 
other  communication  with  it  to  any  person's  propert}',  no  one  has  any 
cause,  need,  or  right  to  go  there,  this  is  my  cortiticate  and  this  is  my 
request  that  you  would  allow  one  of  the  })osts  to  be  removed  or  so 
constrated  (sic)  that  it  may  be  made  passable  with  a  cart." 

12th  ^lay.     Entry  made  on  tlie  minutes  at  an  adjourned  meeting  of  the    822 
Trustees  of  the  turnpike  road  from  Ilitchin  to  Bedford. 

"  The  trustees  present,  taking  into  consideration  the  communication  made 
by  the  Clerk  of  the  peace  for  Bedford,  as  entered  at  the  last  meeting, 


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respecting  the  contribution  of  £100  towards  enlarging,  improving,  and 
repairing  the  north  bridge  at  Shefford,  resolve  that  the  said  sum  be 
advanced  from  the  funds  of  this  trust  for  the  above  purposes,  it  being 
understood  that  the  trustees  are  to  be  put  to  no  further  expencc  relative 
to  the  construction  of  tlie  bridge  or  the  formation  of  the  road  or 
approaches  thereto,  on  either  side." 


824    12th  April.     Statement   by  Francis  Giles  (surveyor)  with   reference  to 
Shefford  South  bridge. 

"  Having  designed  a  new  plan  for  this  bridge  and  presented  at  the  last 
sessions  together  with  my  estimate  of  £500  for  rebuilding  it  with  the 
old  materials,  and  with  a  new  iion  top,  I  was  requested  by  Mr.  Times 
the  clerk  to  the  trustees  of  the  turnpike  road  from  Hitchin  to  Bedford 
to  attend  a  meeting  of  the  said  trustees  at  Shefford,  on  11th  February 
last  with  my  plan  and  estimate  of  this  work,  when  the  said  trustees 
resolved  to  contribute  £200  towards  the  expense  of  rebuilding  the  said 
bridge  according  to  my  plan. 

"  I  therefore  beg  now  to  annex  my  estimate  for  this  work  amounting  to 
£500,  and  if  the  court  should  think  proper  to  order  it  to  be  proceeded 
with,  I  will  forthwith  carry  their  directions  into  effect,  at  the  same  time 
however  that  the  building  of  the  south  bridge  is  carrying  on. 

"  I  beg  to  suggest  the  propriety  of  widening  the  north  bridge  at  Shefford 
also,  from  its  present  width  of  roadway  of  15  feet,  6  inches,  to  22  feet, 
so  as  to  be  similar  to  the  intended  width  of  the  new  south  bridge. 
This  work  of  the  north  bridge,  if  undertaken  contemporaneously  with 
that  of  the  south  bridge,  will  certainly  be  done  at  less  expense  than  if 
it  be  executed  separately,  on  account,  first  of  their  being  a  necessity  for 
drawing  down  the  water  of  Shefford  Mill  Head  at  an  expense  of  about 
£25  for  the  jmrpose  of  rebuilding  the  south  biidge,  and  that,  during 
the  time  the  above  water  is  so  drawn  down,  it  would  be  desirable  also 
to  put  in  the  foundations  for  the  additional  widening  of  the  north 
bridge  ;  secondly  that  one  superintendence  for  the  two  works,  while 
they  are  executing,  would  cost  very  little  and  probably  no  more  than 
for  one  of  them. 

"  The  widening  of  the  north  bridge  I  propose  to  have  done  wholly  with 
brickwork  and  not  to  pull  down  anj'  more  of  the  present  bridge  than 
the  eastern  side  of  it,  in  order  to  unite  the  new  part  to  the  old.  The 
level  of  the  roadway  will  accordingly  be  kept  as  it  now  is,  but  the 
improved  width  will  be  22  feet. 

"  I  consider  that  this  work  will  cost  about  £300,  or  £350,  and  I  should 
hope  that  the  road  trustees  will  contribute  to  this,  in  the  same 
proportion  as  they  have  agreed  to  do  to  the  north  bridge.  The  two 
bridges  at  Shefford  will  then  be  improved  to  uu  ample  extent  for  all  the 
conveniences  of  the  road  tiatiic." 


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A  list  of   licences  granted  by  the  Archdeaconry  Court  of  Bedford,  for    832 
places  of  religious  worship  for  protestant  dissenters  from  1818  to   1828 
under  an  Act  62  Geo.  III. 


Date. 

At  whose  request. 

Whcse  House. 

Where. 

1818 

Francis  Read  and  others 

Chapel 

Maulden 

jj 

James  Sherrill' 

Chapel 

Dean 

)i 

Mark  Smith  and  others 

Mark  Smith 

Thurleigh 

Thomas  Row 

William  Row 

Flitton 

J, 

Thomas  Kiiiipton  and  others... 

Cha])el 

Dunstable 

James  Faueh  and  others 

William  Powell 

Mil  ton- Bryant 

j> 

Richard  Gower 

Thomas  Jordan 

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]42  13th  January.  Order  under  tlie  "  Mauldeii  Enclosure  Act"  36  Geo.  III., 
that  tlie  yearly  tithe  of  £554  13s.  7d.  payable  to  the  rector  of 
Maulden  be  decreased  to  £iQ3  9s.  Od. 


153  13th  January.  Appointment  of  certain  justices  (named)  to  be  visitors  of 
the  Gaol  and  Houses  of  correction. 

194  14tli  July.  Printed  copy  of  an  order,  under  an  act  "For  the  better 
regulation  of  divisions  in  the  several  counties  of  England  and  Wales," 
9  Geo.  IV.,  that  there  be  six  divisions  of  the  county  of  Bedfoid,  for 
holding  of  Special  Sessions,  whicli  shall  respectively  be  called  by  the 
names  of  the  Bedford  division,  the  Ampthill  tlivision,  the  Biggleswade 
division,  the  Bletsoe  division,  the  Luton  division,  and  theWoburn  division. 


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The  Bedford  division  shall  comprise,  Eaton-Socun,  Goldingtoii,  Great 
Barforil,  Ravensden,  RenhoM,  Roxton,  Wilden,  (now  lying  within  the 
liundred  of  Barford)  Little  ]5arford  (now  lying  w^ithin  the  hundred  of 
Biggleswade),  Clapham,  Milton  Ernest,  Oakley,  (now  lying  within  the 
hundred  of  Stodden)  Biddenham,  Bromham,  Stagsden,  Steventon, 
Turvey  (now  lying  within  the  hundred  of  Willey)  Elstow,  Kempston, 
Wilshamstead,  Wootton,  (now  lying  within  the  hundred  of 
Redbornstoke),  Cardington,  Cople,  Eastcotts,  Willington,  (now  lying 
Avithin  the  hundred  of  Wixamtree). 

The  Ampthill  division  shall  comprise,  Ampthill,  Cranfield,  Flitwick, 
Houghton -Conquest,  Lidlington,  Marston-Moretaine,  Maulden, 
Miilbrook,  Steppinglej^  (now  lying  within  the  hundred  of  Redborn- 
stoke), Clophill,  Fiitton,  Upper-Gravenhurst,  Lower-Gravenhurst, 
Hawnes,  Higham-Gobion,  Pulloxhill,  Silsoe,  (now  lying  within  the 
hundred  of  Flitt)  Shitlington  (such  part  thereof  as  is  now  lying  within 
the  hundred  of  Clifton)  Westoning  (now  lying  within  the  hundred  of 
Manshead). 

The  Biggleswade  division  shall  comprise,  Astwick,  Biggleswade,  Cockayne- 
Hatley,  Dunton,  Edworth,  Eveiton,  Eyeworth,  Girtford,  Holme, 
Langford,  Potton,  Sandy,  Stratton,  Sutton,  Tempsford,  Wrestlingworth 
(now  lying  within  the  hundred  of  Biggleswade,)  Arlesey,  Campton, 
Chicksands,  Clifton,  Henlow,  Holwell,  Meppershall,  Shetford,  Upper- 
Stondon,  Lower  Stondon,  Stotfield  (now  lying  with  the  hundred  of 
Clifton),  Beeston,  Blunham,  Broom,  JNIoggerhanger,  iSTorthill,  Rowney, 
Southill;  Stanford,  Warden  (now  lying  within  the  hundred  of 
Wixamtree). 

The  Bletsoe  division  shall  comprise  Col m worth,  (now  lying  within  the 
hundred  of  Barford)  Holuhurst,  Upper  or  Over-Dean,  Lower  or  i^ether- 
Dean,  Keysoe,  Knotting,  Melchbourn,  Pertenhall,  Risely,  Shelton, 
Little  Staughton,  Tilbrook,  Yielden,  (now  lying  within  the  hundred  of 
Stodden)  Bletsoe,  Carlton,  Chellington,  Earndish,  Felmersham, 
Harrold,  Odell,  Pavenham,  Puddington,  Radwell,  Sharnbrook, 
Souldrop,  Thurleigh  and  Wimmington  (now  lying  within  the  hundred 
of  Willey). 

The  Luton  division  shall  comprise.  Barton,  Caddington,  East-Hyde, 
Lcegravc,  Limbury,  Luton,  Stupsley,  Streatley,  Sundon,  West-Hyde, 
(now  lying  within  the  hundred  of  Flitt),  Dunstable,  Eaton-Bray, 
IIoughton-Kegis,  Market  Street,  Studham,  Tilsworth,  Totternhoe, 
AVhipsnade  (now  lying  within  the  hundred  of  Manshead). 

The  Woburn  division  shall  comprise,  Aspley-Guise,  Battlesden,  Billington, 
Chalgrave,  Chaultou,  Eggington,  Eversholt,  Harlington,  Heatli  and 
Reach,  Hocklille,  llolcut,  Ilusborn-Crawley,  Leigliton-Buzz;ird,  Miitou- 
liryant,  Potsgrave,  Salfurd,  Standbiidge,  Tingrilh,  Toddington, 
Woburn  (now  lying  within  the  hundred  of  Manshead)  and  Ridgemont 
(now  lying  within  the  hundred  of  Redbornstoke). 

lOtli   December.     Notice  that  a   petition   will   he   presented   at  the   next    196 
(Quarter  Sessions  against  an  order  that  the  parish  of   Milton-Ernest,  in 
the  hundred  of  Stodden,  be  c-.niprized  in  the  Bedford  ilivision,  for  the 
purposes   of  holding   special   sessious.     (Sec   also    bundle    for    1830 
No.  885). 


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498  24tli  December.  Certified  return  of  the  Bedfordshire  Eegiment  of 
Militia,  consisting  of  1  Colonel,  8ir  John  Osborn,  Bart.,  1  Lieutenant- 
Colonel,  Richard  Gilpin,  3  Captains,  James  Brown  Horner,  (Brevet 
Major)  Samuel  Wallis,  and  John  Henry  Campbell,  4  Lieutenants, 
Richard  Hankin,  Frederick  John  Rix,  Blacket,  R.  Harrison  and 
James  Gosling,  1  Ensign,  James  Broderick,  1  Staff  Captain  and 
Adjutant,  Henry  Leech,  1  Surgeon  Charles  W.  Hyne,  1  Paymaster, 
James  Gosling  (Lieutenant)  11  Serjeants,  11  Corporals,  7  Drummers 
and  317  Privates  (full  number). 

Vacancies  which  have  occurred  through  time  of  service  expiring  up  to  the 
20th  November  last  31.  JSl  umber  on  the  roll  286.  Two  Companies, 
two  lieutenancies,  and  three  ensigncies  are  vacant,  Quarter  Master 
Morris  has  retired  on  a  pension. 


499    12th  January.     Report    by    Francis  Giles  (surveyor)  in  reference  to  the 
outside  wall  of  Bedford  Gaol. 

"  I  have  inspected  this  wall  in  company  with  the  commitee  of  magistrates, 
and  oti'ered  to  them  my  opinion  upon  the  cause  of  the  present 
crookedness  and  upon  the  most  expedient  plan  of  remedying  it  which 
I  beg  now  to  report. 

"  The  original  defect  of  the  wall  arises  from  its  having  been  built  with  an 
unequal  slope  batter  on  the  outside  and  inside  of  it.  The  consequence 
is  that  an  unequal  weight  is  thrown  upon  the  base  of  the  wall,  and  a 
twist  or  curve  towards  the  building  of  the  goal  has  occurred  in  all  the 
four  sides  of  this  wall  to  a  degree  that  appears  to  be  unsafe,  particularly 
on  the  western  side. 

"  Buttresses  might  be  made  to  sustain  this  wall,  but  as  they  are  inadmissible, 
the  only  eventual  remedy,  is  to  pull  it  down  and  to  rebuild  it.  I  do 
not  however  think  that  any  side  of  this  wall  is  in  immediate 
danger  except  the  western  side,  I  would  accordingly  recommend  that 
side  only  be  rebuilt  at  present. 

"An  opinion  has  prevailed  that  the  misgiving  of  this  wall  has  been 
occasioned  by  the  insufficient  hardness  of  the  stones  which  it  is  built  of, 
and  that  they  have  crushed  and  yielded  to  the  superincumbent  weight 
of  the  wall,  this  appears  to  me  to  be  fallacious,  as  the  horizontal  lines 
of  the  masonry  are  level  and  perfect,  and  although  the  outsides  of  many 
of  the  stones  have  decayed,  through  tlie  action  of  the  weather  upon 
them  this  decay  is  merely  superlicial. 

"  The  stones  of  this  wall  vary  much  in  hardness,  but  very  nearly  all  of  them 
are  fit  to  be  used  again,  the  hardest  of  them  should  therefore  be  used 
on  the  outside  of  the  softer  stones,  in  the  inside  of  the  new  Avail,  and 
such  additional  stones  as  may  be  wanted,  should  be  selected  from  the 
hardest  of  the  Bedford  quariies. 


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"  I  consider  tliat  the  foundation  of  this  wall,  that  ia  from  the  surface  of  the 
ground  to  the  bottom  of  it,  is  very  good,  and  certainly  better  thaii  a 
new  foundation  can  be  made  at  any  moderate  expence,  in  consequence 
of  its  having  so  long  borne  the  weight  of  this  wall  upon  it, 
I  therefore  recommend  that  such  part  of  the  present  wall  as  may  be 
required  to  be  taken  down,  should  only  be  removed  to  the  level  of  the 
surface  of  the  ground,  and  that  the  new  Avail  be  built  with  equal  slopes 
on  both  sides,  from  this  base  to  the  top  of  it.  I  am  of  opinion  that  the 
expence  of  taking  down  and  rebuilding  the  western  side  of  this  wall, 
including  such  new  stones  as  may  be  necessary  will  be  X250." 


28th  April.  Report  by  Sir  Robert  Harry  Inglis  chairman,  that,  having  50O 
examined  the  matters  set  out  in  an  appeal  by  samuel  Brunt,  Samuel 
Wells,  and  James  Kingsley,  against  an  assessment  for  the  poor  of 
Longford,  he  recommends  that  the  assessment  be  quashed,  inasmuch 
as  it  appears  that  the  gravel  pit  field,  the  long  close  or  turnip  field,  the 
corn  mead,  the  Church  field,  the  hay  field,  the  long  field,  and  the 
meadows  near  to  the  river  in  the  occupation  of  the  said  Samuel  Brunt : 
the  meadows  east  of  the  high  road  from  Biggleswade  to  Langford  in 
the  occupation  of  the  said  Samuel  Wells,  and  the  Coneygear(?)  in  the 
occupation  of  the  said  James  Kingsley,  are  not  in  the  parish  of 
Langford,  but  in  the  parish  of  Biggleswade. 


20th  October.     Report  by  Francis  Giles  in  reference  to  an  order  for  certain    501 
alterations  at  the  Penitentiary. 

Ill  reference  to  an  order  for  the  alteration  of  the  present  cells,  and 
enlargement  of  the  men's  day  room  and  the  erection  of  18  new 
cells  above  the  present  ones,  in  the  IS'.E.  division  of  the  Penitentiary, 
also  the  erection  of  a  room  above  the  keeper's  wash-house,  and  of 
another  room  over  the  women's  day  room,  I  beg  to  report  that  the 
above  works  have  been  duly  executed,  except  as  to  the  number  of  new 
cells  being  18,  it  having  been  found  expedient  to  confine  the  number 
to  16,  vizt.  14  single  cells,  1  double  cell  and  1  treble  cell,  thus  making 
room  equal  to  19  single  cells  instead  of  only  18.  The  lining  the  doors 
of  the  cells  with  sheet  iron  remains  yet  to  be  done,  which  will  cost  £13 
according  to  my  estimate  for  them,  but  I  beg  to  take  the  opinion  of 
the  court  upon  lining  the  front  walls  also,  which  will  together  with  the 
lining  of  the  doors  cost  £24:. 

The  expenses  of  these  works  amounts  to  £502  12s.  2d.  which  together  with 
the  amount  of  £24  for  lining  the  cell  door  front  walls,  if  that  is  to  be 
done,  will  make  the  total  amount  of  £526  12s.  2d.  this  will  exceed  the 
amount  of  my  estimate  by  £66  12s.  2d.  but  the  cause  of  the  excess  is 
as  follows.  The  tops  of  the  brickwork  partition.s  of  the  old  cells  were 
juuch  decayed  owing  to  the  wet  having  got  through  the  Yorkshire  stone 
covering,  which  occasioned  extra  brickwork  to  the  amount  of 
£10  Os.  Od. 


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The  steps  to  the  gallery  being  of  brickwork  etc.  instead  of  a  wood  step 
ladder  M   13s.  Od. 

The  door  to  the  men's  day  room  and  also  the  window  frame  in  the  wash 
house  being  too  much  decayed  to  be  used  again,  new  ones  were 
substituted £3  Os.  Od. 

Two  iron  pillars  and  additional  beams  in  day  room  in  consequence  of  keeping 
the  gallery  tower,  that  was  first  intended     £6  3s.  Od. 

The  extending  the  cheveaux  de  frise  over  the  women's  day  room  etc. 
£3  9s.  Od. 

New  Yorkshire  stones  for  the  floors  of  the  upper  cells,  the  lining  of  tlie  old 
ones  being  in  part  broken ..£3  Os.  Od. 

The  flues  from  all  the  lower  cells  to  the  roof £2  Os.  Od. 

The  whitewashing  which  was  to  have  been  done  by  the  keeper's  men, 
but  the  keeper  would  not  get  it  done £8  Os.   lOd. 

The  substituting  copper  for  iron  to  the  covering  of  the  flat  projecting  roof 
over  the  gallery   £  1 5  Os.  Od. 

The  lining  the  front  walls  of  the  cells  with  sheet  iron,  if  that  is  now  to  be 
done £12  Os.  Od. 


541  12th  January.  Statement  by  Francis  Giles  surveyor,  in  reference  to 
Hale  Bridge  :  The  repairs  of  the  railing  on  the  south  side  of  Hale 
Bridge  have  been  completed  by  Mr.  Usher,  but  the  brickwork  of  the 
bridge  is  not  in  want  of  present  repair.  The  amount  of  the  bill  for  the 
work  done  is    £27   16s.   lid. 


547  13th  January.  Account  of  Thomas  Gwyn  Elger  to  erecting  a  new  laundry 
over  the  old  wash  house  at  the  new  House  of  Correction  as  per 
contract    £83  5s.  Od. 


567  16th  April.     Account  of  Benjamin  Welstead — to  making  a  valuation  of 

the    parish    of   Ridgmont    by    order    for    the    purpose    of    levying    a 
proportionate  rate  for  the  relief  of  the  poor £52  10s.  Od. 

568  13th  January.     Extract  from  gaolers  bill. 

John  Eedman,  a  glass  of  gin  and  water  the  24:th  October  6d.,  Thomas  Wait, 
tea  twice  daily  from  22iid  December  to  13th  January  7s.  8d.,  strong 
beer  candle  twice  daily  to  5th  January  15  days  @  8d.  is  10s.,  broth  for 
dinner  from  6th — 13th  January  2s.  8d.,  eight  leeches  as  per  order  2s. 
Coach  hire  and  coachman  to  London  £1  13s.  Os.  Hackney  coach  to 
Woolwich  and  back,  feeding  the  horse  etc.  £1  5s.  Od.  The  boat,  chnk 
and  blacksmith  on  board  3s.  6d.,  expenses  of  the  prisoners  (convicts, 


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William  Duffy  and  Anthy  Rock),  5s.,  self  two  days  £1  Os.  Od.,  coach 
and  coachniaji  to  Bedford  from  Kettering  13s.,  three  dozen  of  cotton 
candles  for  the  use  of  the  prison,  the  turnkey's  lantliorn,  the  hall 
lanthorn,  and  the  watchman,  @  7s.  £1  Is.  Od.,  one  and  a  half  dozen  of 
rushlights  @  7s.,  10s.  6d.,  2  dozen  of  birch  besoms  @  2s.  6d.,  5s.  ; 
faggot  wood  for  purifying  foul  clothes,  lighting  the  wasliing  and  soup 
copper  fires  3s.  6d.,  89  lbs.  of  beef  at  Christmas  as  pi-r  order  @  7|d., 
£2  15s.  6d.,  lamplighter's  Christmas  box  Is.,  admitted  a  load  of  sand 
for  the  day  rooms,  5s.  8d. 

23rd  June— 28th  July.     Account  of  John  Edwards.  700 

To  the  water  of  the  river  Ivel,  whicli  Avas  turned  from  its  channel  for  the 
building  of  Langford  Ihidge,  by  order  i37s.    16s.   Od. 

Michaelmas  Sessions.  Statement  by  Francis  Giles  in  reference  to  the  780 
order  for  preparing  plans  and  estimates  for  the  alteration  of  the  Court 
House,  and  for  erecting  a  grand  jury  room  and  rooms  below  for 
witnesses  and  prisoners  in  the  open  ground  south  of  the  main  body  of 
the  County  Hall,  that  he  has  accordingly  prepared  the  same  and  that 
his  estimate  for  these  works,  including  the  ventilation  of  the  Court 
House  is  £1,860  ;  and  further  that  he  wishes  to  take  the  opinion  of 
the  Court  before  they  are  finally  specified  and  contracted  for. 

Extract  from  account  of  the  clerk  of  the  peace.  781 

"  Having  received  a  letter  from  the  Secretary  of  State  to  enquire  whether 
any  Jesuit  or  member  of  the  religious  order  residing  within  this  county 
had  been  registered  under  an  Act  10  Geo.  IV  c.  7.  S.  28  and  writing 
in  answer  that  none  such  had  been  reaistered. 


13th  January.  Presentment  that  a  certain  i)art  of  a  highway  leading  792 
from  Aylesbury  in  tlie  County  of  Ruckingliam  towaids  Woburn,  and 
lying  in  the  hamlet  of  Heath-aud-Reach  in  the  township  of  Leightou 
Buzzard,  being  in  breadth  30  feet  and  situate  between  the  chapel  in 
the  said  hamlet  and  a  turnpike  road  called  West  Chester  Road,  is  in 
great  decay,  and  that  the  iiduibitants  of  the  said  hamlet  should  repair 
the  same. 


13th  January.     Presentment  same  as  above  but  ihat  it  is  presented  that    793 
the  inhabitants  of  Leighton  Buzzard  should  repair  the  same. 

14th  July.  Presentment  that  a  certain  part  of  a  highway  leading  from  815 
tlie  village  of  Thurleigh  towards  the  town  of  St.  is'eots"  in  the  county 
of  Huntingdon,  situate  in  the  parish  of  Bolnhurst,  and  commencing  at 
the  beginning  of  the  said  parish  ami  continuing  to  the  end  of  Ciiurch 
Lane  in  tlie  same  parisli,  being  in  lengtli  1,463  yards  or  thereabouts, 
is  in  great  di'cay,  and  that  the  inhabitants  uf  the  said  parish  ought  to 
repair  the  same. 


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827  Presentment  that  <a  certain  part  of  a  highwaj'  leading  from  the  village  of 
Tilbrook  towards  the  village  of  Switiehead  in  the  county  of  Hunting- 
don, situate  within  the  parish  of  Tilbrook  and  called  Honey  Lane  and 
beginning  at  the  turnpike  road  there  leading  from  Kinibolton  to 
Wellingborough,  and  extending  from  the  said  turnpike  road  into  the 
parish  of  Swineshead,  and  being  of  the  length  of  2  miles  and  of  the 
breadth  of  30  feet,  is  in  great  decay,  and  that  the  inhabitants  of  the 
parish  of  Tilbrooke  ought  to  repair  the  same, 

843  27th  April.     Letter  from  John  Brett  and  William  Yardley,  churchwardens, 

and  Samuel  Ainsworth  and  John  Waller,  overseers,  to  the  treasurer  of 
Bedford. 

"  Application  having  been  [made]  to  us  as  parish  officers  of  Luton  by  the 
high  constable  for  a  county  rate,  owing  to  the  difficulty  of  the  vicarial 
tithes  being  now  in  an  uusettled  state,  we  are  unable  to  get  a  rate, 
without  being  appealed  against  [and]  that  we  at  the  present  have  no 
money  to  keep  the  poor,  [We]  therefore  beg  the  favour  of  you  to  wait 
until  we  can  get  a  rate  made  as  we  can  collect." 

844  18th  May.      Letter  from  Lawrence  Eeynolds  of  Paxton  in   the  county  of 

Huntingdon  J. P.  to  the  clerk  of  the  Peace  for  Bedfordshire,  calling 
attention  to  the  number  of  vagrants  Avho  are  general!}'  conveyed  into 
the  said  county  "  more  fully  than  the  law  requires,"  and  who  have  been 
sent  from  Stotfold  to  Paxton  in  consequence  of  having  reached  Stotfold, 
as  if  it  were  in  the  direct  road  from  Fareham  to  Port  Patrick,  and  that 
the  justices  of  the  said  county  seem  decided  to  try  the  question 
whether  the  pass  is  obligatory  on  the  Stotfold  constable  to  obey,  and 
further  that  some  of  the  passes  seem  to  have  been  illegal  on  the  first 
view  of  them,  those  to  hand  not  being  accompanied  by  any  certificate 
or  order  or  any  signature  of  any  of  the  justices  of  Bedford,  and  that 
a  meeting  seems  to  be  necessary  so  that  some  decision  may  be  arrived  at. 


847    5th    April    1828— 15th    June    1829.       List  of  meetint 
registered  in  the  Archdeaconry  Court  of  Bedford. 

1829. 


house  certificates 


At  whose  request. 

Whose  house. 

Where  situated. 

George  Finch 

George  Finch 

Turvey 

Wm.  Stanley 

Wm.   Stanley 
1829. 

Westoning 

John  Morris  and  others    ... 

Chapol 

Turvey 

John  Ilolloway 

Joliii  Day's  house 

Willinyton 

Will.  Sear 

A  Vmilding 

Eaton  Biay 

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i830. 

April.  Gaol  Return.  Juhn  Kutt  coinmitteJ  for  uttering  counterfeit  gi 
coin,  and  sentenced  to  6  months  hard  labour  iu  the  Old  House  of 
Correction,  and  to  find  sureties  for  his  good  behaviour,  for  a  further  six 
months;  James  Clark,  committed  for  simple  larceny,  and  sentenced  to 
six  months  hard  labour  in  the  Old  House  of  Correction,  and  in  the  last 
week  of  the  said  term  to  be  publicly  whipped  iu  the  market  place  at 
Bedford. 

July.  Gaol  Return.  John  Thompson  committed  for  uttering  false  and  62 
counterfeit  coin,  and  sentenced  to  hard  labour  for  1  year  in  the  i^ew 
House  of  Correction,  and  to  find  sureties  for  his  good  behaviour  for  a 
further  two  years,  Robert  Brewer,  committed  for  simple  larceny  and 
sentenced  to  one  month's  hard  labour  in  the  Old  House  of  Correction, 
and  three  days  before  the  expiration  of  that  term  to  be  privately 
whipped. 


17th  February — •23rd  June.     A  return  of  forfeitures  levied  by  the  justices,    68 
acting  within  the  division  of  Biggleswade,  under  the  several  Acts,  for 
the  more  effectual  prevention  of  the  use  of  defective  weights  and  false 
balances.     A  number  of  names  given. 

20th  April.     Nomination  of  certain  justices  to  be  visitors  at  the  gaol  and    109 
Houses  of  Correction  within  the  county,  pursuant  to  4  Geo.  IV.  C.   64 
S.  16. 


20th    April.       Appointment    under   tlie    "  IMillbrooke    Enclosure    Act,"    160 
35  Geo.  III.,  of  Joseph  Tween  of  Woburn,  gent  and  Charles  Austin  of 
Anipthill,  gent  together  with  a  third  person,   to  enquire  the  average 
price  of  a  Winchester  bushel  of  wheat,  within  the  county  for  fourteen 
years  last  past. 

13th  July.     Order  under  the  same   Act,   that,   the  yearly  corn   rent  of    170 
<£282   19s.   4d.   payable  to  the  Revd.   George  Cardale,  clerk,  rector  of 
Millbrooke,  shall  be  decreased  to  £246  Os.  O^d. 

13th    July.      Printed   copy  of    an   order  amending  that  of   1829   for    180 
dividing,  fur  the   purpose  of  lioldmg  Special  Sessions,  the  county  of 
Bedford.      It  is  ordered  that  : — 

The  Bedford  division  shall  couiprise,  Eaton-Socun,  Goldington,  Great 
Barford,  Ravensden,  RcMihold,  Koxton,  Wilden,  (within  the  hundred  of 
Biggleswade),  Clai)hain,  Oakley,  (within  the  hundred  of  Stodden), 
Biddenluun,  Bromham,  Stagsden,  Steveuton,  Turvey,  (within  the 
hundred  of  \Villt;y),  Elstow,  Keinpston,  Wilshamstead,  Wootton, 
(within  the  hundred  of  Redbornstoke),  Cardington,  Cople  Eastcotts, 
Willington,  (within  the  hundred  of  Wixamtree). 


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The  Ampthill  divisiox  shall  comprise,  Anipthill,  Cranfield,  Flitwick, 
Houghton  Conquest,  Lidlington,  Marston  Moretaine,  Manlden, 
Millbrook,  Steppingley  (within  the  liundred  of  Kedbornstoke),  Clophill, 
Flitton,  Upper  Gravenlmrst,  Lower  Gravenhurst,  Hawnes,  Higham- 
Gobion,  Pulloxhill,  Silsoe,  (within  the  hundred  of  Flitt),  Westoniug 
(within  the  hundred  of  ^Nlanshead). 

The  Biggleswade  division  shall  comprise  Astwick,  Biggleswade,  Cockayne- 
Hatley,  Dunton,  Ed  worth,  Everton,  Eyeworth,  Girtford,  Holme, 
I>angford,  Potton,  Sandy,  Stratton,  Sutton,  Tempsford,  Wrestlingworth , 
(within  the  hundred  of  Biggleswade)  Arlsey,  Campton  Chicksands, 
Clifton,  Henlow,  Holwell,  Meppershall,  Shefford,  Shitlington,  Upper- 
Stondon,  Lower-Stondon,  Stotfold,  (within  the  hundred  of  Clifton), 
and  Shitlington  (within  the  hundred  of  Flitt),  Beeston,  Blunham, 
Brown,  Mogger hanger,  JN^orthill,  Rowney,  Southill,  Stanford,  Warden 
(within  the  hundred  of  Wixamtree). 

The  Bletsoe  division  shall  comprise  Colmworth,  (within  the  hundred  of 
Barford),  Bolnhurst,  Upper  or  Over-Dean,  Lower  or  Nether-Dean, 
Keysoe,  Knotting,  Melchbourn,  Milton-Ernest,  Pertenhall,  Risely, 
Shelton,  Little  Staughton,  Tilbrook,  Yielden,  (within  the  hundred  of 
Stodden),  Bletsoe,  Carlton,  Chellington,  Farndish,  Felniersham, 
Hariold,  Odell,  Pavenham,  Puddington,  Radwell,  Sharnbrook,  Souldrop, 
Thurleigh,  Wimmington  (within  the  hundred  of  Willey). 

The  Luton  division  shall  comprise  Barton,  Caddington,  East-Hyde, 
Leegrave,  Limbury,  Luton,  Stopsley,  Streatlej',  Sundon,  West-Hyde, 
(within  the  hundred  of  Flitt),  Dunstable,  Eaton-Bray,  Houghton-Regis, 
Market-Street,  Studham,  Tilsworth,  Totternhoe,  Whipsnade  (within 
the  hundred  of  Manshead). 

The  "WoBURN  division  shall  comprise  Aspley  Guise,  Battlesden,  Billington, 
Chalgrave,Chaulton.  Eggington,  Eversholt,  Harlington,  Heath-and-Reach, 
Hockliffe,  Holcut,  Husborn  Crawley,  Leighton-Buzzard,  Milton-Bryant, 
Potsgrove,  Salford,  Stanbridge,  'i'ingrith,  Toddington,  Woburn  (within 
the  hundred  of  Manshead),  Ridgemont  (within  the  hundred  of 
Redbornstoke). 

181  14th  July.  Order  made  upon  the  petition  of  George  Musgrave  Esq.  and 
John  Trustram  on  behalf  of  themselves  and  other  inhabitants  of  the 
parish  of  Shitlington,  sanctioning  the  removal  of  that  parish  from  the 
Ampthiil  Division  and  the  placing  of  it  within  the  Biggleswade  division 
for  special  Sessional  purposes.     (See  No.  887). 

imj  Gth  December.  Order  that  a  lane  or  highway  within  the  parish  of 
Caddington,  leading  from  Woorlsiile  in  that  parish  into  the  highway 
leading  from  Luton  towards  Caddington  Green,  and  which  is  of  the 
length  of  about  1207  yards  and  of  the  breadth  of  22  feet,  be  stopped 
up,  and  the  land  or  soil  thereof  sold  by  the  vsurveyor  of  the  highways 
for  the  saiil  parish,  to  the  several  persons  whose  lands  adjoin  thereto, 
if  they  should  l)e  willing,  and  if  not,  then  to  some  other  person  or 
persons,  reserving  lUivertheless,  a  free  way  and  passage  on  foot  only  ; 
through  the  said  highway,  from  Woodside  at  the  point  marked  A  on 
the  plan  annexed  to  a  ponit  marked  B  on  the  said  plan. 

190   The  Plan  referred  to. 


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Order  for  the  sub-rlivision  of  parishes  within  the  division  of  Ampthill,  190a 
between  John  Shaw  and  Charles  Austin,  diief  constables  of  that 
division,  as  follows — Mr.  Shaw's  sub-division,  Ampthill,  Flitwick, 
Steppingley,  Millbrook,  Hoiighton-Conquest,  Maulden,  Clophill, 
Hawnes,  and  Upi)er  Oravenhurst.  Mr.  Austin's  sub-division,  Lidlington, 
Cranfield,  Marston-Moretaine,  Westoning,  PuUoxhill,  Flitton,  Silsoe, 
Highatu  Gobion,  and  Lower  Gravenhurst. 

14th  April.     Deposition  of  Samuel  Bryant  of  Langford.  335 

"  I  am  a  blacksmith  and  keep  a  village  shop,  which  my  wife  manages.  On 
the  23rd  March  last,  my  wife  gave  me  a  half  crovvn  which  she  told  me 
she  had  received  from  the  prisoner  [John  Eutt]  which  she  thought  was 
a  bad  one.  I  looked  at  it  and  thought  so  too.  On  the  following 
morning  I  went  to  Bates  with  whom  the  prisoner  was  working  and  I 
found  him  there  at  breakfast. 

I  said  to  the  prisoner  "  you  must  change  this  half  crown  you  gave  my  wife, 
it  is  a  bad  one,"  he  replied  "  I  have  no  money  I  cannot  change  it,  I  do 
not  know  who  I  took  it  from,  I  have  had  it  in  my  pocket  five  or 
six  weeks,  I  knew  it  was  a  bad  one,  but  I  had  a  right  to  get  rid  of  it 
if  I  could.  I  will  not  change  it.  He  has  on  former  occasions  offered 
bad  money  in  my  shop  in  my  presence, 

14th  April.     Deposition  of  William  Bryant  of  Langford,  victualler.  386 

*'  About  three  weeks  or  a  month  ago  the  prisoner  [John  Rutt]  was  drinking 
at  my  house  when  he  pulled  out  from  his  pocket  a  half  crown  and 
showed  it  to  the  people  about  him.  I  saw  that  it  was  a  bad  one,  some 
of  the  persons  present  saiil  he  (the  prisoner)  never  could  pass  it,  as  it 
was  so  bad.  The  prisoner  replied  that  he  could  for  he  had  some 
stuff  that  would  polish  (sic)  it  over,  and  make  it  go  easily.  He  took 
the  stuff  out  of  his  pocket  and  shewed  it  to  us." 

28th  April.  Deposition  of  William  Summerfield  of  Maulden,  gardener,  395 
that  the  prisoner  (who  calls  himself  John  Thompson)  came  to  his  stall 
in  Dunstable  Market  and  bought  three  halfpennys  worth  of  french 
beans,  and  tendered  a  half  crown  in  payment,  out  of  which  he  was 
given  change.  He  came  again  to  the  stall  about  two  hours  afterwards 
and  bought  a  i)enny's  worth  of  niorrovvfat  peas  and  tendered  another 
half  crown  in  payment.  Deponent  then  began  to  suspect  the  prisoner 
and  went  into  the  "  Rose  and  Crown,"  and  got  the  half  crowns 
weighed,  and  found  they  were  light,  and  then  went  to  Mr.  Squire's 
shop  and  had  the  half  crowns  weighed  again  there,  and  was  told  they 
were  both  counterfeit  coins,  and  an  alarm  then  being  given  the 
pri-soner  was  arrested. 

27th  Novend)er.      Information  of  certain  householders  within  the  County    493 
of  Bedford   thai   "tumult  and  riot"  may  reasonably  be  apprehended 
within    the    said  C'ounty  ;    they  request  that  a   sufficient    number   of 
persons  may  be  appointed  to  act  as  special  constables. 


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592  24th  December.  Certified  return  of  the  Bedfordshire  regiment  of 
militia,  consisting  of  1  Colonel,  Sir  John  Osborn,  J'.art.,  1  Lieutenant 
Colonel  Kichard  Gilpin,  3  Captains,  James  Brown  Horner,  (Brevet 
Major),  Samuel  "Wallis  and  John  Henry  Campbell,  4  Lieutenants, 
Eichard  Hankin,  Frederick  John  Rise  Blacket,  R.  Harrison  and  James 
Gosling  (paymaster)  1  Ensign,  James  Broderick,  1  Staff  Captain  and 
Adjutant,  Henry  Leich,  1  Surgeon,  Charles  W.  Hyne,  11  Serjeants, 
11  Coiporals,  7  Drummers  and  317  privates  (full  number). 

Two  companies,  two  lieutenancies,  three  ensigncies  are  vacant. 

Kumber  of  vacancies  Avhich  have  arisen  by  time  of  service  expiring  from 
20th  November  1829  up  to  20lh  November  this  year  104.  Number 
on  the  roll  182  (vacancies  during  1829,  31). 


594  20th  April.  Report  by  Francis  Giles  county  surveyor  (in  reference  to  an 
order  of  sessions  for  making  a  contract,  with  Messrs.  Berrill  &  Wood- 
ruffe,  to  build  a  new  Grand  Jury  room,  etc.,  and  to  alter  and  repair 
the  Shire  Hall  at  Bedford)  that  the  contract  has  been  accordingly 
agreed  upon,  but  not  signed,  and  that  the  work  of  building  the  new 
Grand  Jury  room  has  also  been  carried  on,  from  the  foundations,  to 
the  height  of  the  floor  of  the  said  Grand  Jury  room,  in  a  very  satis- 
factory manner,  and  that  the  value  of  the  above  work  amounts  to 
about  £300. 


595  13th  July.      Report  by  Francis  Giles  that   the  grand  jury  and   prisoners 

rooms  are  ready  for  immediate  use,  but  the  witnesses  room  is  not,  but 
that  it  will  probably  be  ready  at  the  following  assizes,  and  that  the 
further  sum  of  £500  is  fully  due  to  Messrs.  Berrill  ami  Woodruff,  who 
have  proceeded  with  the  above  works  in  a  satisfactory  manner. 

596  13th  July.     Report  re  Millbrooke  corn  rent,  that  the  average  price  of  a 

Winchester  bushel  of  wheat,  within  the  county  for  14  years  last  past 
is  8s.  0-i-d. 

597  19th  October.     Report  by  Francis  Giles  in  reference  to  alterations  at  the 

Shire  Hall  etc.,  that  the  said  works  have  been  proceeded  with,  as  far 
as  possible  notwithstanding  the  unavoidable  hindrance  which  has 
been  experienced  in  consequence  of  the  Hall  having  been  used 
for  the  late  election  and  for  public  lectures  etc.,  and  that  the  advanced 
state  of  these  works  will  justify  a  further  advance  of  £500  to 
Messrs.  Berrill  &  Woodruff,  and  that  in  reference  to  the  further 
alterations  of  the  inteiior  arrangement  of  the  Shire  Hall,  it  appears 
to  be  very  judicious,  but  as  certain  minor  parts  of  it  are  yet  to  be 
completed  the  payment  for  this  may  be  deferred  until  next  sessions, 
and  that  further,  in  reference  to  making  the  strong  room  within  the 
Shire  Hall  building  that  it  is  also  nearly  completed,  the  payment  of 
which  may  be  also  deferred  until  the  said  next  sessions,  and  that  it  is 
deemed  advisable  to  raise  Mr.  Gadesby's  garden  wall  2  feet,  the 
estimate  for  which  is  £26. 


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15th  July.  An  estimate  by  William  Berrill  and  James  WoodrufFe,  of  775 
taking  down  and  refixing  judge's  seat,  counsel  pews,  jury  box,  and 
other  seats,  forming  new  dock,  lowering  the  ascending  floor  and  seats, 
building  walls  to  passage  to  said  new  dock,  ripping  out  and  making 
good  doors  and  windows,  and  fixing  two  new  windows  to  the  west 
side  of  the  court  to  correspond  with  present  ones,  removing  flues  for 
stoves  etc.,  complete  for  the  sum  of  £125  Os.  Od. 

13th  July.     Certificate  by  P>ancis  Giles,  re  Eaton  Socon  Bridge,  that  it    813 
has  been  found  necessary  to  repair  the  stone-work  and  brick-work  of 
the  Bedford  side  of  this  bridge  between  October  1828  and  the  present 
time.       Mr,    Wade's   and    Mr.   Clarke's  account    for    the   same   being 
respectively  £16  7s.  9d.  &  £10  13s.  Id. 

13th  July.  Similar  certificate  in  respect  to  ShefFord  North  and  South  815 
bridges ;  it  has  been  found  necessary  to  make  a  wa.shing  place  at  the 
North  bridge  similar  to  the  one  that  was  made  last  year  at  the  South 
bridge,  in  order  to  prevent  the  danger  of  cattle  and  horsemen  getting 
into  deep  water,  this  having  been  done  and  the  coping  stones,  which 
had  been  ruined  by  violence,  replaced  and  the  brickwork  to  the  same 
partially  pointed ;  Mr.  Morgan's  bills  for  these  works  amount  to 
£10  12s.  4d. 

19th  October.  Account  of  Samuel  Negus.  To  posting  and  delivering  827 
bills  in  the  town  and  county  of  Bedford  of  a  meeting  to  be  held  in 
the  County  Hall  on  Tuesday  24th  of  August  for  the  purpose  of  taking 
into  consideration  the  propriety  of  presenting  an  address  to  His  Most 
Gracious  Majesty,  King  William  IV.,  upon  His  Majesty's  accession 
£1  2s.  6d. 


January.  Petition  of  John  Turner  and  Edward  Pain  on  behalf  of  them-  855 
selves  and  others,  inhabitants  of  the  parish  of  Miltcn-Ernest,  praying 
that  the  said  parish,  lying  within  the  hundred  of  Stodden,  may  be,  for 
special  sessional  pur|)oscs,  taken  from  the  Bedford  division  of  the 
County  and  placed  in  the  Bletsoe  division,  as  the  said  parish  is  only 
one  mile  and  a  half  fronr  the  Bletsoe  Falcon  where  the  Sessions  are 
held  and  about  4  miles  from  the  town  of  Bedford. 


19th   April.      Petition   of  Thomas    Wiles,    prisoner  at  the  old  House  of    886 
Correction. 

"  Most  honoured  gentlemen  i  embrace  this  opertunity  of  pre.senting  to  you 
a  note  contaiinng  the  full  particulars  of  my  unhap}^  situation,  and  I 
most  humble  beg  you  will  take  it  in  consideration  and  mitligate  my 
punishment  if  you  think  well. 

"  Relating  to  the  earlier  part  of  my  life  i  spent  12  years  and  12  days  in  his 
majesty's  service  and  i  was  in  several  engagements  and  received  three 
wounds  and  when  i  was  discharged  i  received  a  pension  of  6d.  a  day, 
which  with  my  own  industry  and  the  blessing  of  (u)d  on  my  labours  i 
have  beeu  able  to  maintain  my  family  which  consist  of  a  wife  ami 


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three  children  withont  the  assistance  of  any  releif  from  the  parish,  and 
never  was  in  custody  on  any  occasion  whatever  before  this  unfortunate 
affair  took  place,  for  which  i  am  now  punished  and  if  i  remain  here 
to  the  extent  of  my  sentence,  which  will  not  be  expired  until  the  15th 
of  October  i  shall  loose  my  pension,  on  account  that  I  shall  not  be 
able  to  apear  at  Whitehall  to  take  it  within  two  years  according  to  the 
rules,  which  with  the  loss  i  have  sustained  and  not  being  able  for 
hard  work  on  account  of  a  rupture  which  i  unfortunately  am  the 
suferer  of,  which  will  oblige  me  to  fly  to  the  parish  for  relief  if  i  live 
to  be  discharged  from  here,  which  will  be  a  great  liurt  to  mv  feelings 
as  I  never  was  under  frowns  of  a  parish. 

"  Honoured  gentlemen  i  humbly  beg  of  you  to  help  me  in  this  my  great 
distress  aud  it  shall  Ije  my  utmost  study  to  reform  and  regain  the  good 
character  which  i  have  now  lost,  and  to  maintain  myself  and  family 
without  any  other  assistance  and  set  my  family  a  good  example  by 
honesty,  sobriety,  industry,  and  living  in  the  fear  of  God,  from  an 
unhappy  prisioner. 

887  July.  Petition  of  George  Musgrave  and  John  Trustram  on  behalf  of 
themselves  and  the  inhabitants  of  the  parish  of  Shitlington ;  shows 
that,  by  an  order  the  said  parish  lying  within  the  hundred  of  Flitt, 
and  so  much  of  the  same  as  lies  within  the  hundred  of  Clifton,  was 
comprised  in  the  Anipthill  division  for  holding  special  sessions. 
Prays  that  the  said  parish  be  annexed  and  comprised  within  the 
Biggleswade  division,  inasmuch  as  the  hamlet  of  Lower  Stondon  being 
the  major  part. of  so  much  of  the  said  parish  as  lies  in  the  hundred  of 
Clifton  is  nearer  to  Biggleswade  than  Ampthili,  and  that  there  are  two 
justices  residing  within  two  miles  of  the  said  parish  of  Shitlington 
vizt.  the  Revd.  John  Hull,  vicar,  and  the  Eevd.  James  Webster  who 
usually  attend  the  special  sessions  at  Biggleswade  but  not  at  Anipthill, 
and  there  is  no  justice  residing  within  ten  miles  of  Shitlington  who 
attends  the  special  sessions  at  Ampthili.  (see  181). 

896  to  924  12th  January.  Recital  of  proceedings  in  1829  on  the  presentment  of 
Joseph  Edrope,  Edward  Maddock  and  Richard  Kilpin  and  other 
inhabitants  of  the  parish  of  Bolnhurst  in  a  dispute  between  themselves 
and  Richard  Franklin,  P]s(].  as  to  the  repair  of  a  highway  in  the  said 
parish. 

932  23i(l  March.  Indictment  of  John  Rutt  for  utttering  counterfeit  coin 
(a  lialf-ci'own). 

942  to  944  20ih  April.  Further  recital  and  proceedings  (as  in  896  —  924)  on  the 
jiresentment  of  the  inhabitants  of  the  parish  of  Bolnhurst  for  not 
repairing  a  certain  part  of  a  highway  leading  from  the  village  of 
Thurleigh  towards  the  town  of  St.  Neots  in  the  county  of  Huntingdon, 
situate  in  the  parish  of  r)olnhurst  and  commencing  at  the  beginning  of 
the  said  parish  and  continuing  to  the  end  of  Church  Lanc!,  and  which 
is  of  the  length  of  1463  yards.  The  jury  lind  that  tlie  said 
inhabitants  are  not  guilty  (see  also  presentment  14th  July  1829). 


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28th  April.     Indictment  of  Jolin  Thompson  for  uttering  counterfeit  coin    949 
(a  half-crown). 

19th    October.     Letter    of   John    Mayle   Agent  of  the   "Gazette    Office"    1030 
Bedford. 

"  A  few  days  since  Air.  Hatfield  of  Cambridge  expressed  great  pleasure  in 
witnessing  tlie  improvements  made  in  your  criminal  court,  he  begs 
leave  however  to  suggest  that  great  convenience  would  be  afforded  to 
the  press  generally,  could  a  pew  be  set  apart  for  their  use,  as  at 
Cambridge  and  Huntingdon.  As  your  court  is  at  present  arranged  he 
is  apprehensive  that  reporters  may  be  desirous  of  occupying  a  portion 
of  tliat  part  which  is  intended  for  the  use  of  the  counsel  and 
attornies." 


1831. 

15th  June.     Declaration  by  Samuel  Elsdale  Albin,  of  Biggleswade,  that    6 
he  has  a  printing  press  and  types  for  printing,   which  he  proposes  to 
use  in  Biggleswade,  and  which  he  requires  to  be  registered  in  pursuance 
of  the  Act  39  Geo.  III. 

Midsummer  Sessions.     Gaol   Calendar.     Edward  Jackwood  and  Henry    62 
Milton,  severally  convicted  of  being  rogues  and  vagabonds,  viz.  playing 
and  betting  with  a  board,  an  instrument  of  gaming,  at  the  game  of 
chance   called   Thimbles,    Sentenced   to  hard  hibour  for  two  calendar 
months. 

April.     Gaol  Return.     Conviction  of  Thomas  Smoxall  for  lanceny,  to    64 
be  imprisoned  fur  fourteen  days  in  the  new  house  of  correction  and  to 
be  privately  whipped. 

5th  Ai)ril.  Order  (under  the  "lord.sliip  of  Toddington  and  hamlet  of  90 
Chalton  P^nclosuie  Act"  37  (ieo.  III.)  on  the  application  of  several 
owners  of  lands  in  Toddington  etc.,  appointing  William  Wells  Gardner 
of  Biggleswade  and  Gefirge  Aikin  of  Harlington,  arbitrators  to  enquire 
the  average  price  of  a  Winchester  bushel  of  wheat  within  the  county 
for  ten  years  last  past. 

This  application  was  made  by  William  Dodge  Cooper  Cooper  Esq., 
Impropriator  of  Toddington  and  Elizabeth  his  wife,  Edward  Firmin 
of  Hendon  in  the  county  of  Middlesex  and  Nathaniel  ]\[ilne  of 
the  Inner  Temple  their  trustee.s,  and  (Jeorgf!  Pearse  Esq.,  and 
Thomas  Hobbs,  on  behalf  of  themselves  and  others  the  owners  of  lands 
tenements  etc.,  in  Toddington  and  Chalton. 

28th  June.     Order  that  the  yearly  tithe  rent  of  £552   lis.   4^>d.,  payable    101  to  104 
to  the  Rector  of  Toddington  shall   be  decreased  to  £388    Us.    10|d., 
and  schedule. 


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110  IStli  Octobor.  Order  dismissing  the  appeal  (umler  an  act  9  Geo.  IV.) 
of  George  Rogers  against  the  decision  of  certain  justices,  at  a  licensing 
meeting,  in  refusing  to  grant  to  the  appellant  a  license  to  sell  excisable 
liquors  by  retail,  to  be  consumed  in  his  dwelling  house  in  Duck  Lane 
in  the  parish  of  Woburn,  and  that  the  said  appellant  shall  pay 
■£11    18s.    lOd.  costs  to  the  respondents  (the  said  justices). 

121  Draft  order  that  an  assessment  of  13|d.  in  the  pound  be  levied  upon  the 
occupiers  of  land,  tenements,  woods,  tithes,  and  hereditaments,  within 
the  hamlet  of  Heath  and  Reach,  owing  to  the  condition  of  the 
highways,  bridges,  causeways  etc.,  being  such,  that  they  cannot  be 
repaire(i  by  the  means  prescribed  in  an  act  13  Geo.  III.  and  upon 
application  of  the  surveyor  of  the  said  hamlet  under  an  act  54  Geo.  III. 
which  amends  the  first  mentioned  act. 

144  25th  May.     Record  of  the  conviction  of  "William  Chambers  the  younger 

of  Broom  in  the  parish  of  Southill,  gardener,  for  having  in  his 
I)Ossession  a  defective  bushel  measure.  Fined  10s.  and  to  forfeit  the 
said  measure. 

145  25th  May.     Record  of  the  conviction  of  Jolin  Bushby,  "a  seller  of  beer 

by  retail "  for  unlawfully  allowing  a  game  of  cards  to  be  played  on  his 
premises,  against  the  tenor  of  his  licence.  Fined  £3  Os.  Od.  and 
costs. 

]55  3rd  August.  Record  of  the  conviction  of  Samuel  Patrick  of  Biggleswade, 
beer  seller,  for  allowing  the  unlawful  game  of  skittles  to  be  played  on 
his  premises.     Fined  30s.  and  costs. 

512  10th  December.  Certified  return  of  the  Bedfordshire  regiment  of 
militia,  consisting  of  1  Colonel,  Sir  John  Osbcrn,  Bart.,  1  Lieutenant 
Colonel  Richard  Gilpin,  5  Captains,  James  Brown,  Horner  (Brevet 
Major),  Samuel  Wallis,,  John  Henry  Campbell,  William  Stuart  and 
William  B.  Higgins,  4  Lieutenants,  Richard  Hankins,  Frederick  J.  Rix 
(assistant  surgeon)  Blacket,  R.  Harrison,  and  James  Gosling 
(paymaster),  1  Ensign,  James  Broderick,  1  Staff  Captain  and 
Adjutant,  Henry  Leech,  1  Surgeon,  Charles  W.  Hyne,  8  Serjeants  on 
the  staff,  3  drummers  on  the  staff,  4  drummers  not  on  the  staff, 
10  corporals,  269  privates.  Two  lieutenancies  and  two  ensigncies  are 
vacant,  and  Quarter  Master  Xorria  has  retired  on  a  pension. 

"^^^  4th  January.  Report  by  Francis  Giles  county  surveyor  in  reference  to  the 
alterations  at  the  Shire  Hall,  that  the  work  is  done  to  his  entire 
satisfaction,  and  that  the  sum  of  ,£125  is  due  accordingly  to  Messrs. 
Berrill  &  Woodruff,  as  per  contract. 

515  4th  January.  Report  by  Francis  Giles,  in  reference  to  raising  the  Avails 
adjoining  Mr.  Gade.s})y's  garden  etc.,  that  this  work  is  completed  and 
the  sum  of  £26  is  accordingly  due  to  Messrs.  Berrill  &  Woodruff,  as 
per  contract. 


287 

4t.h  January.     Report  by  Francis  Giles  re  the  Shire  Hall  and  new  grand    516 
jury  room. 

"  Messrs.  IJerrill  and  Woodruff's  work  is  so  far  completed  under  their  first 
contract  of  £1780,  as  to  entitle  them  to  furtlier  ])ayment  of  ,£380,  on 
this  account,  which  heing  added  to  the  sum  of  £1300  already  paid  to 
them,  will  leave  £100  still  due,  and  which  £100  must  be  reserved 
until  all  the  painting,  whitewashing,  skirtings  and  other  minor  works 
which  still  remain  to  be  done,  are  finally  completed." 


4th  January.     Report  by  Francis  Giles  in  reference  to  making  a  strong    517 
room    and    forming    a    new    doorway    to    the    savings-bank    room    etc. 
[in  the  Shire   Hall]   that  this  work  is  completed  and  that  £34  is  due 
to  Messrs.  Berrill  &   Woodruff  on  this  account. 


Easter  Sessions.  Report  by  Francis  Giles  in  reference  to  repairs  to  the  519 
Grand  Jury  room  and  Shire  Hall,  and  to  the  furnishing  of  grates, 
fenders,  locks,  and  other  iron  work  for  the  new  Grand  Jury  room,  the 
prisoner's  and  witnesses'  rooms  and  the  old  Grand  Jury  room,  by 
Messrs.  Sanders  and  AVilliams,  that  he  presents  their  account  of 
£61  5s.  (See  No.  675). 

He  also  presents  bills  of  Mr.  W.  Berrill  for  bricklayers'  work  £2  2s.  4d., 
and  of  Mr.  James  Woodruff  for  fixing  a  new  table  and  desk  in  the 
Grand  Jury  room,  also  shelves,  window  blind.s,  and  various  other 
works  at  the  Shire  Hall,  etc.,  amounting  to  £24  14s.  9d. 

17th  October.  Report  of  Fiancis  Giles  in  reference  to  the  fences  of  the  520 
turnpike  road  between  Tempsford  toll  gate  and  Tenipsford  Bridge,  to 
the  effect  that  he  has  corresponded  with  Mr.  Brown  (Mr.  Stewart's 
agent)  upon  this  subject  and  that  he  expects  that  an  arrangement  will 
accordingly  be  made  before  next  Sessions  for  placing  these  fences  in 
the  possesion  of  Mr.  Stuart,  who  will  maintain  them  at  his  own 
expense. 

28th  July.      Report    by    William    Wells    Gardener    of    Biggleswade,    and    521 
George  Aikin  of   Hailington,   that  the  average  price  of  a   Winchester 
bushel  of  wheat,  within  the  county  for  ten  years  past,  is  7s.  2|d. 

4th  January.     Statement  of  accounts  by  Francis  Giles.  5G5 

To  fixing  three  new  guard  posts  and  pointing  the  walls  of  Girtford  P.ridge, 
according  to  an  account  of  W.  B.  Usher  £4  12s.  6d. 


4tli  January.  Statement  of  accounts  by  Francis  Giles,  in  refei'ence  to 
Temjjsford  Bridge. 

Repairing  and  replanting  the  road  fences  between  the  Toll  Gate  and 
Temjisford  Bridge  during  the  year  1830,  according  to  an  account 
delivered  by  W.  B.  Usher  £5  1  Is.  6d. 


566 


288 

Repairing  the  floors  of  the  land  arches  at  this  bridt^e  with  brick  and  fixing 
one  new  oak  post  at  the  same,  .£4  3s.  4d.  (According  as  before). 

^Fr.  Uslier  was  directed  by  Mr.  Giles  to  repair  the  floors  of  tlie  above 
arches  with  Bedford  stone,  but  it  appears  that  he  found  it  inconvenient 
to  get  such  stone,  and  so  lepaired  them  with  l)rick,  but  in  future  stone 
is  to  be  used. 

667    20tli  January.     Account  of  Barnard  Cook  overseer  of  Pulloxhill. 

Paid  47  special  constables  sworn  in  at  Silsoe  and  Ampthill  @  1/- 
each -£2  7s.  Od. 

Paid  21  special  constaldes,  called  out  on  the  6th  December,  1JS30,  by  the 
(Jhief  of  Section  @  2/-  each,  to  quel  a  mob  at  Flitwick  £2  2s. 

685  4th  April.  Account  of  E.  C.  Williamson,  clerk  to  the  magistrates  of  the 
division  of  Luton. 

To  attending  to  swear  in  special  constables  at  the  following  places  in  1830, 
Luton,  Barton,  Streatley,  Sundon,  Houghton-Kegis,  Dunstable, 
Caddington,  Market  street,  Studham,  Whipsnade,  Rensworth, 
Leegrave,  Limbury  and  Stopsley  £6  7s. 

689  5tli  April.  Account  of  Charles  Good  for  passing  removing  and 
maintaining  Irish  paupers,  from  Ampthill  to  Little  Brickhill  on  pass 
for    Ireland     (number    of    paupers    from    January     to     March,     73) 

£12  7s.  8d. 


749  2&th  June.  Statement  by  Francis  Giles  in  reference  to  the  account  of 
Mr.  Woodruif  for  making  a  new  screen  for  the  back  of  the  judges  seat 
in  the  Crown  Court,  and  new  seats  for  the  witnesses  and  prisoners' 
rooms,  and  for  adding  drawers  to  the  writing  desk  and  table  in  the 
Grand  Jury  Room,  which  account  is  for  £28  9s.  Id.  and  is  certified  as 
being  correct. 


805  15th  October.  Extract  from  an  account  of  the  Clerk  of  the  Peace 
(Thced  Pearse  Esqr.). 

"By  direction  of  the  Secretary  of  State  attended  to  search  the  rolls  and 
minutes  of  Session  for  all  articles  of  Friendly  Societies  filed  in  the 
office  of  the  Clerk  of  the  Peace  from  the  year  1793  to  the  present 
time." 

825  Requisition  by  the  magistrates  acting  for  the  division  of  Luton,  that, 
uniting  in  the  feelings  of  the  parishioners  of  Luton,  they  earnestly 
recpu'st  the  magistrates  of  the  county,  to  take  into  consideration  the 
propriety  and  advantage  of  having  a  Bridewell  or  other  proper  place  of 
ctjnfinement  erected  at  Luton,  for  the  reception  and  punishment  of 
persons  convicted  in  that  division  of  offences  punishable  by  imprison- 
ment and  hard  labour. 

Signatures  follow. 


289 

Requisition  to  the  magistrates  acting  for  the  division  of  Luton  by  the  826 
inhabitants  of  that  parish,  tliat  they  are  deeply  impressed  with  the 
evil  arising  from  there  being  no  place  for  the  confinement  and 
punishment  of  offenders  summarily  convicted  of  minor  offences, 
without  the  inconvenience  of  conveying  them  a  distance  of  20  miles, 
and  that  juvenile  offeTiders  are  frequently  allowed  to  go  unpunished; 
this  arising  out  of  the  great  moral  danger  of  sending  them  to  mix  with 
such  abandoned  characters,  as  are  generally  to  ])e  found  within  the 
walls  of  a  county  prison,  and  they  are  thereby  encouraged  by  the  hope 
of  impunity  to  plunge  deeper  into  crime  ;  and  further  that  the  parish 
of  Luton  comprises  nearly  6000  persons,  the  gi'eater  proportion  of 
whom  are  dependant  for  subsistence  upon  agricultural  and  manufac- 
turing employment,  and  that  consequently  a  great  responsibility  is 
thrown  upon  the  requisitionists,  in  endeavouring  to  train  the  rising 
generation  in  ihe  paths  of  morality,  and  it  is  therefore  necessary  to 
have  the  means  of  punishing  early  diviatiou  from  honesty  and  good 
conduct. 

Signatures  follow. 

23rd  and  24th  June.     Acknowledgfements  by  Daniel  Peasman  [Pearman?]  941  to  943 
and  William   Brown   of   Luton,  members   of  the   Society  of  Friends, 
known    as    Quakers,   that   William   Adams,   John   Foster  and    Henry 
Brown,  of  the  same  parish  are  members  also  of  that  society. 

3rd  October.     Letter  from  the  Revd.  G.  H.  Bowen  resigning  his  office  of    945 
chaplain  to  the  prisons  of  the  county,  through  his  being  presented   to 
a    benefice    by    the    Duke    of    Bedford,    the    duties    of    which    are 
incompatible  with  those  of  his  present  station. 

10th  October.     Letter   from    G.    Lamb   the    Secretary   of    State   to    the    947 
Chairman  of  Quarter  Sessions. 

"  I  am  directed  by  Viscount  Melbourne  to  refer  you  to  the  act  of  the  present 
sessions  (c.  32)  entitled  "  an  act  to  amend  the  laws  of  England  relative 
to  game  "  (which  has  been  circulated  by  the  King's  printer  in  the  usual 
manner)  and  I  am  desired  to  re(]^uest  that  you  will  call  the  particular 
attention  of  the  magistrates  assembled  at  the  ensuing  Quarter  Sessions 
to  the  18th  section  of  this  Act,  by  which  they  are  directeil  to  hold 
special  sessions  in  their  respective  divisions  for  the  purposes  therein  set 
forth  between  the  15th  and  30th  of  the  present  month." 

17th  October.     Letter  from  the  Revd.  George  Maclean,  offering  his  services    948 
to  fill  the  vacancy  made  by  the  resignation   of   the   chaplain   of   the 
prisons,  and  stating  that  he  has  been  curate  of  Cople  for  10  years  (see 
also  No.  958). 

I8th  October.     Statement  by  Thomas  Bennett,  churchwarden  of  Woburn,    952 
to  the  magistrates  at  Quarter  Sessions,  that  he  is  of  opinion  that  13 
public  houses  are  a  sufficient  number  for  the  small  town  of  Woburn, 
and  that  another  one  is  not  required,  (see  also  No,  951). 


290 


953  Easter  Sossions.  Statement  V>y  Francis  Giles  in  reference  to  the  railing 
to  tbe  Turnpike  road  on  the  north-west  side  of  Girtford  Bridge,  that  it 
has  been  a  long  time  dilapidated  and  Mr.  Thornton  has  directed  it  to  be 
repaired  by  Mr.  Usher,  and  his  bill  accordingly  amounts  £9  10s.  Gd. 


956  24th  October.  Letter  from  G.  Lamb,  stating  that  he  is  directed  by 
Viscount  ^Melbourne  to  transmit  to  the  chairman  of  Sessions  the  copy 
of  an  Act  of  Parliament,  which  has  received  the  Eoyal  assent,  "  for 
amending  the  laws  relative  to  the  appointment  of  special  constables, 
and  for  the  better  preservation  of  the  public  peace,"  to  ■which  it  is 
requested,  tlic  attention  of  the  magistrates  shall  be  drawn. 


957    24th  December.     Circular  letter  (printed)  from  S.  M.  Phillipiis  to  the 
chairman  of  Sessions. 

Whitehall.  "  I  am  directed  by  Viscount  Melbourne  to  request  you  to  give 
instructions  to  the  High  Constables  of  the  several  hundreds  or  other 
divisions  in  the  county,  to  make  out  and  transmit  to  the  Secretarj'-  of 
State,  with  as  little  delay  as  possible,  a  correct  statement  of  all  Peace 
officers,  whether  constables,  borsholders,  tythingmen,  or  under  any  other 
title,  (excepting  special  constables  appointed  under  the  act  passed  in  the 
last  sessions)  appointed  for  the  several  piarishes,  townships,  or  other 
places,  within  their  respective  hundreds.  In  order  to  facilitate  the 
preparing  of  this  return,  I  enclose  a  number  of  printed  forms  which 
I  am  to  request  you  to  cause  to  be  distributed  to  the  several  High 
Constables,  at  the  ensuing  Quarter  Sessions  of  the  Peace." 


1832. 

Ql  Epiphany  Sessions.  Gaol  Calendar.  Michael  Sabey,  committed  for 
deserting  from  the  Bedfordshire  Militia,  sentenceil  In  6  months'  hard 
labour,  or  to  pay  a  fine  of  £20. 


104  ^^^^  Felnniary.  Record  of  the  conviction  of  William  ITarradine  of  the 
j)arish  of  Cardington  yeoman  for  having  with  a  horse,  at  the  parish  of 
Henlow,  gone  off  the  turnpike  road  branching  from  the  turnpike  road 
from  Ilitchin  to  Bedford,  through  Henlow  to  Gcrford  (?  Girtford)  Bridge, 
on  to  the  lands  adjoining,  with  intent  to  evade  the  payment  of  tolls. 
Fined  £2. 

114  17th  February.  Record  of  the  conviction  of  William  Muckleton,  of  the 
parish  of  Harlington,  retailer  of  beer,  for  keeping  his  house  open  for 
the  sale  of  beer  after  ten  o'clock  at  night.  Fnied  £2  and  costs  ;  one 
half  of  the  said  fine  to  be  awarded  to  John  Watts  of  the  same  parish, 
the  prosecutor. 


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22n(l  August.  Record  of  the  conviction  of  Ann  Bird,  widow  and  Richard  1' 1 
Bird  yeoman,  both  of  Beeston  in  the  parish  of  Sandy,  occupiers  of 
lands  and  tenements  of  the  yearly  value  of  £100  and  upwards,  keeping 
also  two  teams  and  being  liable  to  perform  statute  work  upon  the 
highways,  and  turnpike  roads,  within  the  said  parish,  for  neglecting  to 
do  such  statute  work  as  directed  by  William  Hedding,  surveyor  of  the 
Turni)ike  road  leading  from  Biggleswade,  to  Alconbury  Hill,  in  the 
county  of  Huntington,  and  for  having  used  only  one  cart  and  three 
horses  and  two  able  men,  at  such  time  as  they  should  have  used  two 
carts  and  three  horses  and  two  able  men  to  each  cart,  contrary  to  an 
Act  56  Geo.  III.  Adjudged  to  pay  a  sum  equal  to  twice  the  amount 
of  such  statute  work  according  to  the  rates  fixed  by  the  justices  as 
follows,  10s,  for  every  cart  with  three  horses  and  two  men  for  one 
day,  amounting  in  all  to  £5. 

7th  November.     Record  of  the  conviction  of  John  Hawkins  of  the  parish    204 
of  Southill  for  driving  a  waggon  along  a  highway  in  that  parish  and 
not  having  any  other  person  on  foot  or  on  horseback  to  guide  the  same, 
nor  any  person  to  hold  the  horse's  reins,  contrary  to  an  Act  1 3  Geo.  III. 
Fined  10s. 


3rd  April.     Order  under  the  "  Harlington  Enclosure  Act,"  48  Geo.  III.,    250 
appointing  Eichard  Peyton  of  Cooks  Court,  Lincoln's  Inn,  and  George 
Aikin  of  Harlington  to  be  arbitrators  or  referees  to  enquire  the  average 
price  of  a  Winchester  bushel  of  wheat  within  the  County  for  21  years 
last  past. 

3rd  April.     Order  under  the   "  Caddington  Enclosure  Act"  38  Geo.  Ill    251 
appointing  William  Wells  Gardner  of  Biggleswade  and  George  Aikin 
of  Harlington  to  be  arbitratoi's  or  referees  to  enquire  the  average  price 
of  a  Winchester  bushel  of  wheat,  within  the  county  for  10  years  last 
past. 

3rd  July.     Order  that  the  yearly  tithe  rent  of  £215  Os.  9|d.  and  payable    252 
to  the  Vicar  of  Caddington,  shall  be  decreased  to  £164   14s.   9|d. 


3rd  April.     Order  that  the  yearly  tithe  rent  of  £119  7s.  9d.  payable  to    262 
the  Revd.  Thomas  Pearse,  vicar  of  Harlington,  shall  be  increased   to 
£159  lis.  6d. 


11th  October.  Order  of  Sessions  made  at  Aylesbury  in  the  county  of  280 
Buckingham,  that  the  Clerk  of  the  Peace  for  that  County  shall  forth- 
with write  to  the  (Jlerks  of  the  Peace  for  the  several  counties  in  England, 
calling  attention  to  the  enormously  increasing  expenditure  of  counties 
under  the  head  of  bridges,  and  inviting  the  co-operation  of  their  counties 
resjjectively,  in  an  a])plication  to  Parliament  for  power  to  collect  tolls 
fium  passengers  over  county  bridges  (for  whose  acconimodaliou  they 
have  been  erected)  in  order  to  reimburse  the  expenses  of  counties. 


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281  16th  October.  Order  dividing  the  County  of  Bedford  into  six  districts  for 
polling,  the  said  districts  respectively  to  comprise  tlie  several  parishes, 
townships  and  places,  as  follows  :  — 

The  Ampthill  polling  district  shall  comprise  Ampthill,  Aspley-Guise, 
Clophill,  Crantield,  Eversholt,  Flitton,  Flitwick,  Gravenhurst  Upper, 
Gravenhurst  Lower,  Harlington,  Hawnes,  Highani  Gobion,  Holcutt, 
Houghton-Conquest,  Husborne  Crawley,  Lidlington,  Marston-Moretaine, 
Maulden,  Millbrook,  Pulloxhill,  Ridgemont,  Salford,  Silsoe,  Steppingly, 
Tingrith,  Westoning,  Woburn.  The  Bedford  polling  district  shall 
comprise,  Barford  Great,  Barford  Little,  Biddenham,  Bromham, 
Cardington,  Clapham,  Cople,  Eastcotts,  Eaton-Socun,Elstow,  Goldington, 
Kempston,  Oakley,  Ravensdeii,  Renhold,  Roxton,  Stagsden,  Steventon, 
Turvey,  Wilden,  Williiigton,  "Wilshamstead,  Wootton,  Town  op 
Bedford  viz.  St.  Cuthbert,  St.  John,  St.  Mary,  St.  Paul,  St.  Peter. 
The  Biggleswade  polling  district  shall  comprise,  Arlesey,  Astwick, 
Beeston,  Biggleswade,  Blunham,  ('ampton,  Clifton,  Cockayne-Hatley, 
Dunton,  Edworth,  Everton,  Eyeworth,  Henlow,  Holwell,  Langford, 
Meppershall,  Moggershanger,  Northill,  Potton,  Sandy,  Shifford, 
Shitlington,  Southill,  Stondon  Upper,  Stotfold,  Sutton,  Tempsford, 
Warden,  Wrestlingworth.  The  Leighton  polling  district  shall 
comprise,  Battlesden,  Chalgrave,  Eaton-Bray,  Egginton,  Heath-and- 
Reach,  Hocklilfe,  Leighton-Buzzard,  Milton  Bryant,  Potsgrove, 
Standbridge,  Tilsworth,  Toddington,  Totternhoe.  The  Luton 
polling  district  shall  comprise.  Barton,  Caddington,  Dunstable, 
Houghton-Regis,  Luton  with  its  hamlets,  viz.  East  Hyde,  Leegrave, 
Limbury,  Stopsley,  West  Hyde,  JMarket-Street,  otherwise  Humbershoe, 
Streatley,  Studham,  Sundon,  Whipsnade.  The  Sharnbrook  polling 
district  shall  comprise,  Bletsoe,  Bolnhurst,  Carlton,  Chellington, 
Colnworth,  Dean,  Farndish,  Felmersham,  Harrold,  Keysoe,  Knotting, 
Melchbourne,  Milton  Ernest,  Odell,  Pavenham,  Pertenhall,  Puddington, 
Riseley,  Sharnbrook,  Shelton,  Souldrop,  Staughton  Little,  Thurleigh, 
Tilbrook,  Wimmington,  Yielden. 

282  iitli  May.  Order  for  the  diverting  and  turning  of  a  certain  part  of  a 
footway  within  the  parish  of  Dunstable,  leading  from  Houghton  Regis 
to  Dunstable,  and  commencing  at  the  east  corner  of  Dog  Kennel  Close, 
belonging  to  William  Frederick  Brown,  at  a  i)oint  marked  A  on  the 
plan  annexed,  and  proceeding  across  the  said  Close  nearly  along  the 
south-east  side  thereof  into  the  turnpike  road  leading  from  Dunstable, 
towards  Hockliffe,  at  the  south  corner  of  the  said  Close,  at  a  point 
marked  B  on  the  said  plan  and  which  is  about  300  yards  long,  and 
that  a  new  footway  in  lieu  tliereof  shall  be  made,  commencing  at  the 
east  corner  of  the  said  Close  at  the  point  marked  A  on  the  said  plan, 
and  proceeding  across  the  same  in  a  straight  line  in  a  south-westerly 
direction,  until  it  enters  the  turnpike  road  leading  from  Dunstable  to 
Hockliffe,  at  a  point  marked  C  on  the  said  plan,  at  a  distance  of  34  yards 
from  the  south  corner  of  the  said  Close,  containing  in  length  about  274 
yards,  and  in  broad tli  6  feet.  And  it  is  further  ordered  that  as  soon  as 
tlie  said  new  footway  shall  be  completed,  and  the  same  certified,  then 
the  former  footway  shall  })e  stopped  uj),  and  the  soil  thereof  vested  in 
the  said  William  Fredeiick  Brown,  in  exchange  for  the  new  footway. 


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11th   iNIay.     Consent  of  William  Frederick  Brown  to  the  making  of  a  new    283 
footway  over  his  land  in  consideration  of  the  old  footway  being  vested 
in  him. 

Plan  of  the  proposed  new  footway  across  Dog  Kennel  Close.  284 

1st  June.  Order  for  the  diverting  ami  turning  of  a  certain  part  of  a  public  285 
highway  and  footway  within  the  parish  of  Luton,  leading  from  liiscott 
at  a  point  marked  A  on  the  plan  annexed,  towards  Biscott  windmill, 
and  entering  at  a  gate  marked  B  on  the  said  plan  into  and  through  a 
farmyard  belonging  to  Samuel  Crawley  Esqr.  at  Biscott,  and  in  the 
occupation  of  John  Bates,  ami  into  and  ihrough  Cherry  Tree  Close,  also 
belonging  to  the  said  Samuel  Crawley,  until  it  enters  the  Windmill 
Koad  at  a  point  marked  C  on  the  .said  plan,  and  containing  in  length 
about  165  yards,  and  that  a  new  highway  and  footway  be  made  in  lieu 
thereof,  commencing  at  Biscott  at  the  point  marked  A  on  the  said  plan, 
into  and  through  the  said  close  of  Samuel  Crawley  (and  in  the 
occui)ation  of  John  Bates)  adjoining  the  street  of  Biscott  aforesaid  the 
Windmill  Road  (?)  and  proceeding  in  a  southerly  direction  along  the 
east  side  of  the  saiil  close,  until  it  enters  the  said  AVindmill  Road  at  the 
said  point  marked  C  on  the  said  plan,  and  containing  in  length  about 
134  yards,  and  in  breadth  20  feet,  and  it  is  further  ordered  that  upon 
the  new  highway  and  footway  being  completed,  and  the  same  certified, 
the  former  highway  and  footway  shall  be  stopped  up  and  the  soil 
thereof  vested  in  the  said  Samuel  Crawley  in  exchange  for  the  new 
highway. 

1st    June.       Consent    of    Samuel   Crawley   Esqr.    to   the   making   of  the    286 
proposed  new  highway  and  footway,  through  his  land,  in  consideiation 
of  the  old  highway  and  footway  being  vested  in  him. 


Plan,  of   the  proposed    new    highway  and  footway  through  Cherry  Tree    287 
Close. 


14th  August.  Order  for  the  stopping  up  of  part  of  a  public  highway  in  289 
parish  of  Puvenham,  (in  the  division  of  Blet.soe)  leading  out  of  the 
public  road  from  I'avenham  to  Felmersham,  towards  the  public  road 
from  Puvenham  to  Stafford  Bridge,  and  commencing  at  Thomasins 
Green,  along  Colter's  Lane,  between  the  lands  of  Francis  Green  Esqr. 
on  each  side  thereof,  as  far  as  a  field  called  White  Ground,  in  the  said 
parish  of  Pavenham,  the  projierty  of  the  Countess  De  Grey,  and 
containing  in  length  about  264  yards,  and  in  breadth  9  feet,  and  also 
that  the  soil  thereof  be  sold  by  the  surveyor  of  the  highways  of 
Pavenham,  to  Francis  Green  Esqr.  whose  lands  adjoin  thereto,  if  he 
shall  be  willing  to  purchase  the  same,  if  not,  then  to  some  other  person 
or  persons  for  the  full  value  thereof,  (see  Nos.  208  and  288). 

Plan  of  such  part  of  the  highway  proposed  to  be  stopped  up.  290 


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525  3nl  Januaiy.  Certificate  that  part  of  a  higliway  situate  in  the  township 
cf  Leii^liton  liuzzard,  between  the  chapel  of  Heath  and  lieach  and  the 
turnpike  road  called  West  Chester  Koad,  containing  in  length  1000 
yards,  and  in  breadth  30  feet,  is  repaired. 

52G  3rd  January.  Certificate  that  part  of  a  highway,  situate  in  the  hamlet  of 
Heath-and-Ruach  in  the  township  of  Leightou  Buzzard,  and  lying 
between  the  chapel  of  the  said  hamlet,  and  the  turnpike  road  called  the 
West  Chester  Road,  containing  in  length  1200  yards,  and  in  breadth 
30  feet,  is  repaired. 

527  16th  October.  Certificate  that  a  highway  situate  in  the  parish  of 
Crantield,  leading  from  the  village  of  North  Crawley  in  the  county  of 
Buckingham,  towards  the  village  of  Marston-Moretain  and  presented  at 
sessions  on  14th  October  9  Geo.  IV.,  is  now  repaired. 

540  2nd    April.      Report    of   Francis  Giles,  county   surveyor,   in   reference   to 

building  an  additional  room  out  of  the  bath  room  at  the  iSevv  House  of 
Correction,  this  room  being  for  the  purpose  of  a  depository  for  the 
books  and  papers  of  the  justices,  and  further  in  reference  to  building  a 
new  room  over  the  above,  for  Mr.  Tregenza's  use,  and  that  he  has 
surveyed  the  same,  together  with  the  removal  of  the  oven  from  the  bath 
room,  and  retixing  it  in  the  cleansing  room.  Mr.  Elger's  tender  for 
which  woik  all  couiplete  is  £70. 

541  Easter  Sessions.     Report  by  Francis  Giles  in  reference  to  Radwell  Bridge, 

that  he  has  surveyed  it  and  specified  the  work  necessary  for  its  complete 
repair,  also  that  he  has  obtained  from  Thomas  Scrives  a  mason  at 
Felmersham,  a  tender  for  the  same  fur  £150  and  another  from  Samuel 
Harrison  and  Edward  Green  of  Brumhani  for  £130  15s.  9d.,  while  that 
of  Mr.  Elger  is  for  £125,  the  latter  being  recommended  by  Mr.  Giles. 

Midsummer  Sessions.  Statement  by  Francis  Giles  re  Radwell  Bridge : 
the  repairs  have  not  been  completed  owing  to  the  continuance  of  the 
floods,  and  consequently  he  defers  his  report  upon  the  same,  until  next 
sessions. 

543  'Sni  July.  Report  by  William  Wells  Gardner,  of  Biggleswade,  George 
Aikin  of  Harlington,  and  Miller  Golding  of  Biddenhaui,  that  the  average 
price  of  a  Winchester  bushel  of  wheat  within  the  county  for  ten  years 
last  past  is  7s.  5^d. 

544  to54G  3rd  July.  Report  by  Theed  Pearse,  Clerk  of  the  Peace,  that  he  lias  viewed 
Holm  Mill  Bridge  over  the  River  Ivel,  and  the  live  small  arches  or 
culverts,  east  of  the  same,  over  which  a  highway  passes.  Four  of  these 
arches  adjoin  together,  the  two  first  being  2  feet  2  inches  wide,  and  all 
of  them  206  feet  from  the  end  of  the  briilge,  and  from  the  bank  of  the 
river,  over  which  it  passes.  The  fifth  arch  is  2  feet  7  inches  wide,  and 
58  feet  from  the  four  arches.  All  these  are  common  road  arches,  such 
as  are  to  be  seen  on  every  road  where  water  is  to  pass  from  one  side  to 
the  other. 


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It  does  not  ajipoar  that  previous  to  Easter  Sessions  1827  Holm  Mill  P)riflf:je 
had  been  repaired  as  a  county  hridge,  hut  at  that  session  the  court  made 
the  follo\vini(  order  "In  reference  to  the  order  of  last  session  directing 
the  Clerk  of  the  Peace  to  ascertain  whether  the  same,  (Holm  Mill 
Bridge)  he  a  county  bridge  ;  the  (^lerk  of  the  Peace  delivered  his  report 
stating,  that  he  does  not  think  the  county  liable  to  the  repairs  thereof, 
but  at  the  same  time  calling  the  attention  of  tlie  court  to  the  case  of 
the  '  King  v.  the  inliabitants  of  Kent,  Maule  v.  8ehvyn  '  Vol.  2  p.  513, 
A.T).  1814.  And  the  court  having  taken  the  same  into  consideration, 
ami  also  the  statement  of  Mr.  Giles  that  the  bridge  is  now  in  an 
indictable  state,  and  also  the  probable  expense  of  trying  the  questions 
at  law,  ordered,  that  INIr.  Giles  be  directed  to  take  measures  forthwith 
for  making  the  necessary  repairs  at  Holm  Mill  Bri<lge,"  and  in 
pursuance  of  such  order  the  said  bridge  was  repaired  at  the  expense  of 
the  county.  At  Epiphany  Sesssions  1828,  the  court  made  the  following 
order  respecting  one  of  the  arches,  now  under  consideration,  being  the 
5th  arch,  viz.  "  a  magistrate  present  stating  that  a  small  arch  on  the 
east  side  of  Holm  Mill  P)ridge  has  been  by  the  flood  two  days  ago 
destroyed,  ordered  that  the  county  surveyor  do  in  that  event  take  the 
necessary  means  to  repair  the  same  forthwith,"  and  at  the  following 
Quarter  Sessions  the  following  minute  is  entered  in  reference  to  the  said 
las't  mentioned  conditional  order,  Mr.  Giles  reported  "  that  no  repairs 
were  necessary,  but  that  in  I'efereiice  to  the  new  bridge  at  Holm  Mill 
some  partial  additions  were  required  to  the  fencing  the  roadway,  and 
were  accordingly  l)y  him  directed  to  he  made,  and  the  expense  thereof 
according  to  a  bill  delivered  by  JNlr.  "W.  B.  Usher  is  £4  8s.  6d. 
Ordered  that  the  same  be  paid." 

In  reference  to  the  present  state  of  the  five  arches  in  question,  the  following 
order  was  made  at  the  last  Epiphany  Sessions  viz.  "  Mr.  Giles  having 
reported  that  a  biidge  over  the  drain  to  the  east  of  Holm  Mill  Bridge  is 
insufficient  in  its  capacity  over  the  water  way  and  unsafe  in  respect  to 
the  roadway,"  ordered  that  Mr.  Giles  be  directed  to  examine  the  same 
in  reference  to  the  expense  of  such  alteration  thereof  as  he  would 
recommend,  and  that  he  report  thereupon  to  this  court  on  the  first  day 
of  next  sessions."  The  report  made  by  Mr.  Giles  last  Easter  Sessions 
occasioned  the  order  before  stated,  for  this  report. 

From  all  this  it  appears  that  at  and  since  Easter  Sessions  1827,  Holm  Mill 
Bridge  has  been  treated  as  a  County  Bridge,  and  from  its  being  so 
considered,  the  county  is  liable  by  Statute  22  Plenry  VIII.  Chap.  5  sec. 
9,  to  repair  such  part  and  portion  of  the  highways  as  Ym  next  adjoining 
to  the  ends  of  the  said  briilge,  distant  from  any  of  the  saiil  ends  by  the 
si)ace  of  300  feet,  within  which  distance  the  five  arches  are  situate. 

This  case  is  similar  to  the  "King  v.  Oxfordshire"  11  Geo.  1\'.  and 
1  William  IV.  (1  Harnwall  and  Adolphus,  p.  289)  and  the  whole  of 
that  case  is  recommended  to  the  consideration  of  the  court.  The  road 
in  continuation  of  Holm  Mill  Bridge  eastward  is  a  causeway  between 
low  meadow  giound  liable  to  be  flooded  from  sudden  rains,  having  wide 
ditches  on  each  side  of  the  load,  the  water  being  in  ordinary  times  a 
drain  of  waste  water  from  the  Kiver  Ivel,  south  of  the  said  briilge  and 
flowing  thi'ough  the  said  arches  northward.  The  two  small  arches 
appear  to  have  been  long  built,   the  others  are  more  modern  and  of 


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greater  width,  and  may  be  sufficient  for  the  ordinary  flow  of  water,  but 
it  is  ai)i)arL'nt  tliat  in  tinius  of  fljod,  the  water  ovi-rflows  both  the 
meadows  and  the  road,  and  that  it  is  clear  these  arches  cannot  bo 
considered  as  "  substantive "  bridges,  and  if  they  were  to  be  so 
considered,  the  county  would  be  liable  to  the  repair  of  300  feet  from 
either  end  of  them,  but  on  the  authority  of  the  case  cited  it  seems  they 
can  only  be  considered  as  part  of  the  highway,  within  300  feet  from 
the  east  end  of  the  said  bridge,  and  the  bank  of  tlie  river,  and  the  said 
bridge  now  being  treated  as  a  county  bridge,  the  question  now  to  be 
decided  is  whether  the  county  is  liable  to  more  than  the  keeping  of  the 
arches  in  rej)air,  so  as  to  admit  of  the  ordinary  passage  along  the  road, 
as  the  public  have  enjoyed  it.  Mr.  Giles  in  his  hist  mentioned  report 
did  not  state  that  the  said  bridge  was  out  of  repair  etc.,  and  the 
attention  of  the  court  is  drawn  to  the  case  of  "The  King  v.  Devonshire" 
6  Geo.  IV.  1825  (this  repoited  4  Barnewell  v.  Cresswell  p.  670). 

The  bridge  in  question  was  over  the  Dart,  and  it  was  stated  that  it  was  not 
ruinous,  broken,  dangerous  and  in  great  decay  for  want  of  necessary 
upholding,  etc.,  but  that  it  was  too  narrow,  so  that  the  king's  subjects 
with  their  horses  etc.,  could  not  pass  without  great  danger  of  their  lives, 
but  it  was  stated  that  it  was  as  wide  as  ever  it  was. 

If  the  county  should  erect  a  new  biidge  in  lieu  of  the  five  arches  in  question 
it  may  be  doubtfid  whether  the  inhabitants  will  not  be  liable  to  the 
lepair  of  the  road  at  each  end  to  the  extent  of  300  feet,  and  considering 
the  winding  of  the  brooks,  rivers,  and  rivulets  of  the  county,  and  their 
frequent  crossing  the  common  highways,  many  cases  similar  to  the 
jiresent  may  occur,  and  Holm  Mill  Bridge  be  quoted  as  a  precedent  for 
erecting  other  similar  bridges,  with  liability  to  repair  at  the  two  ends. 

547  3rd  July.      Report    by  Richard  Peyton  of  Cook's  Court,   Lincoln's   Inn, 

George  Aikin  of  Harlington,  and  William  Thomas  Warren  of  Isleworth 
in  the  county  of  Middlesex  land  Surveyor,  that  the  average  price  of  a 
Winchester  bushel  of  wheat  within  the  county  for  21  years  last  past 
is  9s.  2{d. 

548  31st  December.      Report  by  Francis  Giles  in  reference  to  the  completion  of 

the  painting  etc.  of  the  Grand  Jury  room  and  Sliire  Hall,  that  it  is  not 
yet  completed,  but  had  it  been,  Messrs.  Rerrill  and  Wood  ruffe  would 
have  been  entitled  to  the  payment  of  their  balance  of  £100,  and  it  is 
therefore  recommended  that  £80  only  be  paid  to  them  on  this  account. 

549  24th  December.     Certified  returns    of   the    Bedfordsliire    Regiment   of 

Militia,  consisting  of  1  Colonel,  Sir  John  Osborn,  Bart.  ;  1  Lieutenant 
Colonel,  Richard  Gil}>in  ;  5  Captains,  James  Brown  Horner  (Brevet 
^lajor)  Samuel  AVallis,  John  Henry  (Janipbell,  William  Stuart  and 
William  B.  Higgins  ;  4  Lieutenants,  Richard  Hankins,  Frederick  J.  Rix 
(assistant  surgeon)  Blacket  R.  Harrison,  James  Gosling  (paymaster)  and 
Ensign  James  Broderick,  1  Staff  Captain  and  Adjutant  Henry  Leech  ; 
1  Surgeon,  Charles  W.  Hyne  ;  11  Serjeants,  10  Corporals,  7  Diummers, 
and  Privates,  fidl  nundier  317.  Vacancies  which  have  arisen  by  time 
of  service  expiring  up  to  the  20th  >«oveniber  (1882)  112.  Number 
on  the  roll  205. 

Two  Lieutenancies  and  three  Ensigncies  are  vacant. 


297 


2nd  April.  Estimate  by  Francis  Giles  County  Surveyor,  for  taking  573 
down  five  small  arches  which  are  the  bridges  over  the  drain  to  the 
east  of  the  Holm  Mill  Bridge,  and  building  one  brick  arch  of  12  feet 
span  in  lieu  of  them,  and  also  for  fencing  the  roadway  on  each  side  of 
the  bridge  with  posts  and  rails.  The  above  arches  being  made  of 
4  inch  brickwork,  they  will  not  provide  much  material  towards  building 
the  new  arch,  the  cost  therefore  of  this  work  will  be  about  £100. 

(Rough  plan  of  above  is  annexed). 

3rd  July.     A  testimonial  to  Sir  Robert  Harry  Inglis,  Bart,  chairman  of    581 
the  Bedfordshire  Quarter  Sessions,  from  the  magistrates  of  the  county. 

"  We  the  undersigned  magistrates  of  the  County  of  Bedford  assembled  in 
Quarter  Sessions,  beg  to  offer  you  this  our  testimony  of  our  unfeigned 
regret  at  the  decision  this  day  communicated  to  us,  of  the  necessity 
under  which  you  feel  yourself  of  resigning  the  office  of  Chairman  of  the 
Sessions. 

"  We  are  deeply  sensible  of  the  unwearied  attention  which  you  have 
bestowed  upon  the  numerous  objects  officially  brought  before  you,  of 
the  personal  sacrifices  which  you  have  made  for  the  public  service,  and 
of  the  ability  which  you  have  invariably  shown  in  the  execution  of 
your  arduous  duties.  We  are  also  fully  sensible  of  the  friendly  and 
considerate  manner  in  which  you  have  constantly  received  the 
suggestions  of  your  brother  magistrates  in  all  their  official  communica- 
tions with  you,  as  well  as  of  the  professional  assistance  which  they  have 
so  constantly  received  at  your  hands,  and  of  the  uniform  urbanity  and 
impartiality  which  you  have  shown  on  every  occasion 

With  these  feelings  we  beg  to  offer  you  our  most  sincere  and  cordial  thanks, 
and  with  every  good  wish  for  your  future  welfare  and  prosperity  to 
subscribe  ourselves."     (29  signatures  follow). 

2nd    January.      Presentment    that    Blunham    Bridge    in    the    parish    of   588 
Blunham   situate   in   a   highway   leading   from   the   town  of   Bedford, 
towards   the  village   of   Tempsford,    is  in   great   decay,   arid    that    the 
inhabitants  of  the  County  of  Bedford  ought  to  repair  the  same. 

1st  November.  Indictment  of  John  Mann  senior  of  the  parish  of  630  &  G31 
St.  Paul,  Bedford,  labourer  and  George  Harris  of  the  same,  blacksmith, 
for  conspiring  to  defraud  the  trustees  of  the  Bedfonl  Charity,  by  means 
of  a  forged  certificate,  to  the  effect  that  John  Mann,  junior,  an 
apprentice  to  the  said  George  Harris,  was  of  sufficiently  good  character 
to  become  entitled  to  a  sum  of  money,  granted  by  the  said  trustees, 
under  an  Act  7  Geo.  IV.  (for  the  better  management  and  disposition  of 
the  estates  given  by  Sir  William  Harpur,  knight,  and  Dame  Alice  his 
wife,  for  a  free  and  perpetual  school  in  the  town  of  Bedford)  to 
apprentices  who  had  served  the  full  term  of  appi'enticeshi[)  and  who  had 
complied  with  the  tenor  of  their  indentures,  whereas  the  said 
apprentice  was  not  qualified  to  receive  the  said  bequest. 


208 


6^6  3r(i  April.  Letter  from  John  J.  Coward,  and  W.  Bigge,  at  the  request  of 
the  trustees  of  the  Wepleyan  Chape),  stating  that  the  object  of  the 
application  is  to  obtain  the  use  of  the  Shire  Hall,  on  Sunday,  during 
the  time  that  the  said  trustees  may  be  employed  in  carrying  into  effect, 
their  design  of  erecting  a  much  larger  structure,  than  their  present 
chapel,  in  order  to  meet  in  some  degree,  the  acknowledged  want  of 
space  in  such  places  of  worship  generally,  for  so  increasing  a  population, 
and  it  is  hoped  that  as  the  said  building  so  solicited,  has  been  used  for 
various  religious  meetings,  that  the  magistrates  will  consent  to  the 
matter  in  hand. 

^50  13th  October.  Letter  from  Sir  Robert  Harry  Tnglis  to  the  Clerk  of  the 
Peace. 

"  In  consequence  of  my  late  absence  from  England,  I  did  not  till  this  day 
receive  your  letter  of  the  14th  August,  conveying  to  me  the  address, 
with  which  the  justices  assembled  in  Quarter  Sessions  were  pleased  to 
propose  on  the  3rd  Julv  last  to  honour  me.  I  request  you  to  tender  my 
grateful  respects  to  the  justices  who  have  conferred  upon  me  this 
distinction,  and  to  assure  them  that  I  value  it  very  deeply,  and  that 
I  shall  always  retain  the  strongest  sense  of  the  uniform  kindness,  which 
they  collectively  and  individually  have  shown  to  me,  ami  which  is 
crowned  by  this  last  act.  T  beg  you  to  accept  my  personal  thanks  for 
the  manner  in  vrhich  you  have  transmitted  the  address  and  for  the  aid 
which  T  have  always  found  at  your  hands." 


653 


Rough  memoranda  as  to  certain  orders  of  sessions  re  repairs  at  Plohn 
Mill  Bridge,  from  Epiphany  Sessions  1828  to  Epiphany  1832. 


"'^"  Copy  of  resolution  by  the  justices  for  the  County  of  Bedford,  that  they 
are  unanimously  of  opinion  that  firstly,  the  expenses  of  the  last  six 
months  have  proved  that  the  licensed  beer  houses  ai'e  highly  injurious 
to  the  morals  industry,  and  good  order  of  the  labouring  classes  ; 
secondly,  that  by  holding  out  inducements  to  profligate  and  improvident 
expense  they  tend  to  increase  parochial  burdens  ;  thirdly,  that  in  the 
event  of  any  disturbance  in  the  county,  they  would  become  a 
rendez-vous  for  seditious  and  disorderly  assemblies,  and  would  opposa 
a  formidable  difficulty  to  the  executions  of  the  constabulary  force  ; 
fourtlily,  that  the  act  by  which  they  are  established  has  not  operated  to 
destroy  the  monopoly  of  the  trade,  or  to  provide  a  better  or  more 
wholesome  beverage  for  the  people  ;  fifthly,  that  the  principle  of 
permitting  the  sale  of  beer  is  beneficial,  but  the  consumption  of  it  on 
the  premises  of  the  dealer  is  decidedly  and  extensively  mischievous. 


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